TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yamatake Corporation (TOKYO:6845) of the azbil Group has announced that InnovativeField Organizer, a device management system which, used with HART and FOUNDATION fieldbus compliant related products, can achieve dramatically more efficient instrumentation maintenance, improving plant safety and productivity.

InnovativeField Organizer executes integrated monitoring, diagnostics, and settings adjustment for the numerous control valves and measuring devices used in a production facility such as an oil refinery or a chemical plant, particularly in process automation (PA). Working with related products, InnovativeField Organizer provides the following benefits.

• Shortens the time required for routine maintenance by dramatically improving the efficiency of field device inspection such as loop checks before plant startup: Until now, pre-startup checks in large plants have usually been done by several pairs for 3–5 days. With proper automation and laborsaving measures, this period can be reduced to 1–2 days.
• Minimizes losses caused by device failure for providing real-time reports on device status: In the case of a sudden device failure, time and production losses until the problem is solved can cost from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of yen (hundreds of thousands to millions of U.S. dollars), depending on the scale. Detecting early warning signs of malfunction minimizes time and production losses.
• Ensures that maintenance expenditures are appropriate by continuous monitoring of trends in field device status:
• Unifies the interfaces for device adjustment and configuration by FDT/DTM technology: Effective use of digital communications and the built-in diagnostic functions of devices from various suppliers are possible regardless of the device or communication protocol.
• Effective maintenance for control valves: By incorporating the functions of Yamatake's Valstaff^TM maintenance support system, InnovativeField Organizer makes control valve maintenance work and related decision making more effective.

Related products coming to market at the same time

• BU100 HART I/O module
• DOFC fieldbus controller with enhanced functions
• DTM for Yamatake's field devices

Sales price

• The minimum configuration price starts at 3,000,000 yen.

Sales schedule

• May 2011:      InnovativeField Organizer, English version and related products
• October 2011: InnovativeField Organizer, Japanese version (scheduled)

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