Vigilance 7 Rollout Sept.1-2

If you are in Systems, or Instrumentation sales and marketing, please mark your calendar to attend the Vigilance 7 Rollout.

Agenda

Day 1: Tuesday, September 1 (one-hour)

• One hour demo CENTUM^® VP: A VigilantPlant scenario for "Kaizen" in an industrial boiler operation.
• Time: 3-4 pm
• Required attendees: all YCA marketing and sales employees
• Location:
• Sugar Land - Sugar Land Demo Center
• Newnan - Room 101
• Mexico -
• Canada - VCR 1
• Remote offices - Please let Kari Mitchell (kari.mitchell@us.yokogawa.com, x3867) know so she can send you the webex information. The webex info will be issue on August 20.

Day 2: Wednesday, September 2 (all day)

• Required attendees: All employees (Sales, PMK and Marketing) are required to attend.
• Location:
• Sugar Land: Room 101
• Newnan: Room 001
• Canada: VCR1
• Mexico: Remote locations: Please let Kari Mitchell (kari.mitchell@us.yokogawa.com, x3867) know so she can send you the webex information. The webex info will be issue on August 20.

RSPV for the V7 by August 10 to kari.mitchell@us.yokogawa.com.. To view the full agenda, please contact erica.zanini@us.yokogawa or kari.mitchell@us.yokogawa.com

Dave Summers

We are pleased to announce the addition of Dave Summers to our Canadian Sales team. Dave will be assuming the role of RSM (Regional Sales Manager) for FIBU products in Canada. He will be based out of the Calgary office and will report to me.

Dave’s primary responsibility will be to grow the IA products in Canada for the FIBU division. He replaces Sam Hassan who transferred to the FIBU PMK group in Newnan. Dave comes to us from our channel partner CB Engineering where he spent more than nine years selling and promoting Yokogawa products.

Dave’s background is in the oil & gas sector. He has extensive experience in selling and dealing with the Calgary EPC environment. His experience with the Yokogawa-CA channel partners, as well as our Canadian customers, will offer great benefits to the growth of our products business.

Dave is a SAIT and a University of Calgary graduate. He and his wife, Amanda, have two children – Joshua, 5, and Karyssa, 2 1/2. In his spare time, Dave enjoys running and recently completed his first marathon.

Please join me in welcoming Dave and his family to the Yokogawa team.

You may contact Dave Summers at: dave.summers@ca.yokogawa.com
Office: 403-258-2681
Cell: 403-542-4460

Regards,

Charlie Johnson
National Sales Manager, IA Products

Donald Wyatt promoted to Business Unit Manager, Yokogawa Laser Division

Please join me in congratulating Donald Wyatt on his promotion to Business Unit Manager for the Yokogawa Laser Analysis Division (LAD) in Clear Lake, Texas. In his new position, he will ultimately be responsible for overall management the LAD business unit including sales and marketing, R&D and product Development requirements, and production requirements. Don will also be responsible for profit/loss and facilities operations. He will report to me.

He will be working closely with the TDLS (Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometer) manufacturing groups in Clear Lake and Newnan, as well as the Laser Analysis R&D group.

Donald has been the Global Sales Manager of the Yokogawa Laser Analysis Division since Yokogawa’s purchase of Analytical Specialities, Inc., in April 2008. He participated in two Department of Energy programs -- the “Development of In Situ Sensors for the Chemical Industry” which led to the development of the TruePeak™ TDLS platform and the “Advanced Diagnostics and Control for Furnaces, Fired Heaters and Boilers” which led to the development of the combustion measurement TDLS platform.

Donald has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University and more than 15 years in the Process Analyzer business.

You may contact Donald at: donald.wyatt@us.yokogawa.com
Telephone: 281-488-0409, x106

Regards,

Trevor Knittel
GM Laser Analytical Division

Daisuke Motoki

I am pleased to announce that Daisuke Motoki has been transferred from YHQ as Japanese Account Manager and will report to me in his new function.

Motoki-san has been with Yokogawa for 25 years involving DCS application engineering and sales engineering for customers from a wide variety of industries.

Please join me in congratulating and supporting Motoki-san in this important assignment.

You may contact Motoki-san at: email:daisuke.motoki@us.yokogawa.com
Telephone 281-340-4211

Regards,

Satoshi Mukade
GM, Strategic Accounts System Sales

Alfred Kania

We are pleased to announce the addition of Alfred Kania to the Analytical Group. Al is assuming the duties of Regional Sales Manager, Analytical Products. He will office from the Sugar Land, TX, facility and will report to me.

Al Kania graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1981. For the nearly 30 years, he has been involved in various sales and marketing positions for process analyzers ranging from infrared and oxygen analyzers on up to process gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers. Sales responsibilities included managing domestic sales regions as well as European and Asia-Pacific regions. He has also published and co-authored a number of papers on the use of on-line analyzers in a number of international publications.

During his career, Al had worked for Siemens Applied Automation for over 20 years followed by four years at Emerson Rosemount Analytical. Prior to joining Yokogawa Corporation, he was at Spectral Sensors, Inc where he had been responsible for the sales and marketing of their TDL laser analyzer system.

He lives in Houston, Texas with his wife, Dena. They have four children and one grandchild. His personal interests include gardening, cooking and brewing beer!

You may contact Al Kania at: al.kania@us.yokogawa.com
Telephone 281-727-6323

Regards,

Neal Cronin

Amit Ajmeri

I am pleased to announce that Amit Ajmeri has agreed to join USMK as Consultant – Field Network Technology. Amit will remain in Sugarland and will report to me. Please join me in wishing him success in his new position.

Amit has been working with YCA for the past 6 years as a consultant in asset management solutions and field network technology, most recently with the systems marketing group. Prior to that he worked for Emerson for 12 years as a product specialist and Fieldbus consultant. He has a Batchelor of Engineering in Instrumentation and Control from Gujurat University. He is married to Nazma and they have two children - Sahil (14) and Nabil (12). His interests are traveling, music and reading books.

Part of USMK's mission is to represent Yokogawa on standards committees and industry groups and to that end Amit will represent Yokogawa on the HART Foundation, Fieldbus Foundation, FDT/DTM Group, and the ISA103 & ISA104 standards committees. Amit will also continue to provide customer support on field network technology items.

You may contact Amit at: amit.ajmeri@us.yokogawa.com
Telephone 281-340-3817

Regards,

Maurice Wilkins

Yokogawa positioning as combustion total solution provider at Valero

“The Valero Way: The safety of our employees, our operations and our communities is our highest priority – Valero 2007 annual report”

Valero is constantly striving to achieve operational excellence. It is not by accident that Valero was ranked No. 1 in Fortune magazine as the best large company to work for two consecutive years. Valero was also named, Downstream Business of the Year by the 2007 Platts Global Energy Awards. When Yokogawa introduced the TDL (Tunable Diode Laser) analyzer product last year, Valero was one of the first companies that expressed keen interest in this unique combustion solution.

How can Yokogawa help Valero sustain operational excellence in the cyclical refinery business? During up cycles, most companies focus on improving safety, increasing throughput and product quality. In an economic turndown, the focus is on safety, improving efficiencies and reducing costs. Initial discussions between Yokogawa and Valero centered around TDL features and benefits. These meetings gradually evolved from product technical discussions into how a total turnkey solution for combustion management could help Valero improve the safety and fuel efficiencies of fired heaters in their refineries – even in times when capital budgets were not available.

The primary function of fired heaters is to increase the temperature of the petroleum crude before it enters into distillation columns and vessels. There are typically 30-50 fired heaters in each refinery.

In 2007, the Valero’s corporate group created a compliance document related to SIS (Safety Instrumented Systems) for fired heater units. Valero McKee refinery’s 28 fired heaters were benchmarked against this new safety standard. It was discovered that many of these aging units need improvement in safety, and fuel efficiencies. In order to comply with this new objective, Valero is expecting a total combustion solution that consists of SIS, analyzers, instruments, data acquisition, application engineering, sound project, and maintenance management. An asphalt-fired heater at the McKee refinery has been identified as the pilot project for Yokogawa’s combustion safety and optimization solution.

In addition to TDL analyzers measuring oxygen and carbon monoxide content, Valero has requested Yokogawa to provide a turnkey proposal that will include mechanical and sustainable maintenance services. An example of mechanical maintenance would be to repair the damper in the flare stack and seal the fired heater box. Typically, mechanical work does not fall within the scope of a controls project. As Yokogawa rapidly establishes its reputation as a total solution provider and a main automation contractor, we need to expand our service capability into these new areas.

Valero praised Yokogawa’s ability to listen to their requirements and were impressed by our fired heater knowledge. The Yokogawa team members involved in this pursuit are Craig Ferris, Trevor Knittel, Tadao Jo, Donald Wyatt, Terry Nelson, Maurice Wilkins, and Constantine Lau. This Valero application will provide a stepping-stone to other combustion applications such as incinerators, boilers, and burner management.

Solution selling requires listening and understanding customer’s issues and priorities, especially in an economic environment when customer-spending priorities are switching from capital expenditure to operational expenditure. As demonstrated in this case, listening and creativity allowed us to expand a TDL analyzer point application into a combustion safety and optimization total solution.

YCA attends fourth ARC Forum in Orlando, Florida

Despite the dismal global outlook looming on the horizon, more than 450 attendees were present for the 13th annual ARC Strategy Forum February 2-5 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The Yokogawa Electric Corporation and Yokogawa Corporation of America leadership teams used the time to meet with top Yokogawa customers like ExxonMobil, Valero, and Savannah River. Under the theme of “Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Sustainable Manufacturing,” Yokogawa's press conference and showcase table at the exhibition featured highlights of the intelligent remote terminal unit (RTU), the tunable diode laser (TDL) analyzer, and the new Real-time Production Organizer (RPO). At the showcase table, the TDL helped to attract customers such as ExxonMobil, Boeing, Hatch, and General Motors. This is the fourth consecutive year that Yokogawa has participated in the forum as a Gold Sponsor. In 2005, Isao Uchida announced Yokogawa's intention to be the global No. 1 by 2010. This began a fast-paced growth for Yokogawa Corporation of America and is felt to be the starting point for improved awareness of Yokogawa in North America. Yokogawa Corporation of America's business has been growing steadily – expanding in market share and striking fear in the eyes of our competitors. Many important Yokogawa IA marketing campaigns such as VigilantPlant®, Safety Excellence, Asset Excellence, and Production Excellence have been launched at this forum.

Yokogawa and the forum's general session

The ARC Forum's general session concluded with a very interesting CEO Q&A roundtable discussion. During this session, Dennis Sadlowski of Siemens, Mr. Kaihori, Christopher Curtis of Schneider Electric, Angel Mendez of Cisco Systems, and Franz-Josef Kersting of BASF each took turns answering a variety of end user questions from the audience pertaining to environmental and business sustainability. The questions asked included:- What technology do you see in the next 5-10 years? - What is your customer telling you and what are you doing in the next 6-12 months? - How do you reduce system maintenance costs? - Will there be any IT investment in automation? - How do you train/motivate people?

Yokogawa breakfast

End users, media representatives, and Yokogawa partners joined us at the Yokogawa Gold Sponsorship Breakfast to learn about “Solutions for Sustainable Manufacturing” from Mr. Kaihori. A total of 80 people attended the breakfast.

Yokogawa-sponsored customer dinners

Other events sponsored by Yokogawa included two customer dinners. On February 2, Mr. Kaihori, Mr. Kurosu, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Gaas, and Mr. Knittel joined Dr. J.D. Tate of Dow Chemical at Roy's Hawaiian Fusion Restaurant to discuss the TDL and Yokogawa's future relationship with Dow. Dr. Tate leads technology development in the Process Analytical R&D Group at Dow, where he has oversight responsibilities for identifying gaps and opportunities for online measurement and control. Before joining Dow, he worked as a scientist at Sparta, Inc., leading research efforts involving optical biosensors for commercial and defense applications. Dr. Tate is recognized as an expert in online spectrometry, installing hundreds of analyzers used to monitor important industrial processes. Yokogawa's second dinner, the Yokogawa President's Dinner, took place on February 3 at Arthur's 27, a restaurant atop the Wyndham Hotel. Here, ExxonMobil, Savannah River, Nova Chemical, and Valero met with Yokogawa's leadership team to discuss present and future relationships. For Yokogawa, this President's dinner is one of the best customer events at ARC. This year's VIP guests included Sandy Vasser, Michael Sarli, Craig Schiro, Thomas Alloway, Stephen Russell, Jin Guram, Dale Nicosia, and Gary Youll.

Yokogawa announces the RPO™

Editors from Control Engineering, Control, Industry Week, InTech, Maintenance Technologies, Managing Automation, Manufacturing Business Technology, Plant Engineering, Reed Business Information, and many others attended the Yokogawa press conference. Mr. Kurosu presented the roadmap of the new RPO.

SCADA Center of Excellence established

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.

Yokogawa Sugar Land Charity Committee delivers first check to RMH

In February 2009, the Sugar Land Charity Committee proudly presented its first contribution to the new Texas facilities charity, Ronald McDonald House (RMH). The donation of $2,500 was raised in 2008 by YCA employees through a series of internal events.

Leslie Bourne, Executive Director of RMH, gladly accepted the check with the words “Thank you for your continued support of the House that Love Built!”

About Ronald McDonald House

The local organization is located at 1707 Holcombe Blvd in Houston. It is a three story building with 50 bedrooms. Each year, thousands of children are treated in Houston for serious illness.

“The house really feels like home,” said Ernie Guerrero, Sugar Land Charity Chairman, who visited the house. “When you walk in there an atmosphere of warmth and welcome that immediately puts you at ease.”

The three-story brick atrium building includes an eight-station kitchen and a special needs kitchen, a dining room, a laundry room, an outside play area, several playrooms, and a one-room school that is part of Houston Independent School District. In an average year, more than 16,000 nights of lodging are provided to approximately 700 different families who have traveled from all over the world to find a cure. Family at the house

Ernie visited the RMH and met with families and children that live in the house.

“It was amazing to see a young girl diligently working on a lesson in the classroom despite undergoing heart surgery two weeks ago,” he said. “Thanks to our donations we could help a young man from Canada to stay at RMH due to an invasive surgery done on his stomach.”

Depending on the type of surgery, families may stay from 45-100 days at a time. At the end of their stay, they are required to check out (leave the premises) for a week in order to give other families a place to stay.

Comments from residents of RMH:

“I have no idea what I would have done without you (RMH) there during our eleven months in the hospital. The House was such a comfortable place to go to each day, especially the stressful days. I’m so thankful for the overnight rooms in the hospital. It was a little less stressful to stay down the hall from our son. We will forever be thankful for the Ronald McDonald House during the most difficult time of our lives.” --Mrs. Johnson, Austin, TX

“I would like to say few words about our ‘home away from home’, The Ronald McDonald House of Houston. It was a great sanctuary for our children and as well for the grown ups. We have experienced the incredible bond of friendship and togetherness among families that are dealing with the dreadful diseases. The staff members and volunteers of the house were so tuned to the needs of individual families that the ‘home away from home’ was a sheer delight for us even going through such a thorny path. I do not know any other place that could provide such a solace for the struggling hearts.” --Anjan Sen

NetSol announces DXAdvanced R3

DXAdvanced™ R3 is the newest and most capable version of the DAQSTATION data acquisition and display station. Included in the list of new functions are:

• Custom–designed display screens


• An alarm annunciator display mode using ISA sequencing


• Data display and recording functions that can replace common annunciator lamp panels and turn the DXAdvanced into a intelligent annunciator system


• Easier historical data review due to a new calendar display, search tool and enhanced trend history functions


• Multi-batch recording where channels can be grouped and recorded to discrete batch records with independent start and stop control


• Open network connectivity that has been a hallmark feature of all DXAdvanced models


• EtherNet/IP and PROFIBUS DP protocols (in addition to MODBUS RTU and TCP) to aid installation on control networks. DX Advanced R3 can interface with PLCs and other control products as a data source or to add graphical data display and recording functions


• An external input option that allows the DX2000 to handle up to 300 additional inputs from external I/O (such as Yokogawa’s MW100 data acquisition system) for a total system capacity of 348 inputs

The DXAdvanced R3 has become an award winning product in the short time it has been on the market. It took first place in the Recorder category of Control magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards. It also took top honors at the category of Data Acquisition in Control Engineering’s Engineers’ Choice Awards. To learn more about this great new product, please visit www.daqstation.com.