Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced the release of Centum VP R4.02, an enhanced version of the company's flagship integrated production control system.

This new version of Centum VP offers enhanced information visibility, a more intuitive operator interface, improved consolidated alarm management, a new Foundation fieldbus engineering function, and linkage with the ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System (SIS). 'With these enhancements of functions that provide a foundation for VigilantPlant, Yokogawa's vision for the ideal plant, this new version will bring our customers a higher level of stability, reliability, and productivity at their plants,' a company statement said.

'Yokogawa provides the products, solutions, and services that help its customers enhance plant safety, reliability, and productivity, and the foundation for these improvements is the company's Centum VP Integrated Production Control System.'

The main market targets are manufacturing and processing industries such as oil and natural gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, iron and steel, pulp and paper, electric power, and water treatment.

The enhanced version has applications in the monitoring and automatic control of plants and manufacturing equipment