The SCADA (Supervising Control and Data Acquisition) team at YCA Sugar Land was officially announcement in January 2008 when the leadership team decided to establish at the Sugar Land office a SCADA Center of Excellence (SCE). “The team was established as SCE group in North America and we are well on the way to accomplishing that” said David Mims, Engineering Supervisor, YCA SCADA Department.
In order to accomplish this, the SCADA team focused last year on the following:
Established a local sales support team in Sugar Land office managed by Sagar Patel, BP Account Manager who established a working relationship with BP in US.
To assist BP and the YCA SCADA teams in achieving their long term goal of BP technical excellence, the BP SCADA Lab was established as a facility for formulating and testing new concepts and ideas.
Identified and began implementation of training for FAST/TOOLS and STARDOM within YCA
Aligned YCA with the Stardom Technical Assistance (STA) Program as a means of decreasing response times when solving technical issues (both internally and externally) related to Stardom controllers.
Moved SCADA department members into a central location as a means of promoting team work.
Created a structured organization (within the SCADA Department) that takes into consideration the various functions required during SCADA project execution.
Created a common directory for SCADA team members and common communication channels that traverse YCA (Sugar Land) and YCA-CA (Canada) as a means of promoting teamwork across the two office locations.
Established relationships with YHQ and YEF as a means of sharing knowledge and strengthening our global FAST/TOOLS organizations and expertise.
Created SCADABOT (For more information on the SCADABOT stay tuned on the upcoming newsletter issues) and InfoWell Demos.
The SCADA team consists of 35 members which are part of the two organizations: Upstream Solution Group and YCA SCADA Engineering Department. The two core products that the SCADA team focuses on are Stardom (Yokogawa’s line of RTU’s) and FAST/TOOLS (Yokogawa’s SCADA HMI/Database application).
David Mims (working with John Noren, Makoto Suda, Hiromitsu Sonehara, Hiroki Usami and Sridhar Santhan) has developed a strong strategic plan on how YCA will develop the team necessary to achieve the YCA goal of becoming a SCADA Center of Excellence.
Moving forward into FY2009 the structure of the YCA SCADA organization will be further strengthened with new leadership positions, a comprehensive SCADA training program (built in cooperation with the YCA Training Department), integration of the DCS HMI team into SCADA organization via SCADA HMI responsibilities, developing and refining SCADA project estimation applications, and many more initiatives.
Click here to see the SCADA team organization.
In order to accomplish this, the SCADA team focused last year on the following:
Established a local sales support team in Sugar Land office managed by Sagar Patel, BP Account Manager who established a working relationship with BP in US.
To assist BP and the YCA SCADA teams in achieving their long term goal of BP technical excellence, the BP SCADA Lab was established as a facility for formulating and testing new concepts and ideas.
Identified and began implementation of training for FAST/TOOLS and STARDOM within YCA
Aligned YCA with the Stardom Technical Assistance (STA) Program as a means of decreasing response times when solving technical issues (both internally and externally) related to Stardom controllers.
Moved SCADA department members into a central location as a means of promoting team work.
Created a structured organization (within the SCADA Department) that takes into consideration the various functions required during SCADA project execution.
Created a common directory for SCADA team members and common communication channels that traverse YCA (Sugar Land) and YCA-CA (Canada) as a means of promoting teamwork across the two office locations.
Established relationships with YHQ and YEF as a means of sharing knowledge and strengthening our global FAST/TOOLS organizations and expertise.
Created SCADABOT (For more information on the SCADABOT stay tuned on the upcoming newsletter issues) and InfoWell Demos.
The SCADA team consists of 35 members which are part of the two organizations: Upstream Solution Group and YCA SCADA Engineering Department. The two core products that the SCADA team focuses on are Stardom (Yokogawa’s line of RTU’s) and FAST/TOOLS (Yokogawa’s SCADA HMI/Database application).
David Mims (working with John Noren, Makoto Suda, Hiromitsu Sonehara, Hiroki Usami and Sridhar Santhan) has developed a strong strategic plan on how YCA will develop the team necessary to achieve the YCA goal of becoming a SCADA Center of Excellence.
Moving forward into FY2009 the structure of the YCA SCADA organization will be further strengthened with new leadership positions, a comprehensive SCADA training program (built in cooperation with the YCA Training Department), integration of the DCS HMI team into SCADA organization via SCADA HMI responsibilities, developing and refining SCADA project estimation applications, and many more initiatives.
Click here to see the SCADA team organization.
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