Yokogawa Plant Resource Manager R3.31

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has released version R3.31 of its Plant Resource Manager (PRM) software tool for the centralised management of data from plant monitoring and control devices as well as manufacturing equipment.

The latest version enables seamless management of the process of detecting and responding to device failures. This has been achieved by linking PRM to a computerised maintenance management system that is used to draw up maintenance plans and manage the progress of maintenance tasks. With version R3.31, field maintenance personnel can also access key performance indicator (KPI) reports on device availability and other indices that until now have been mainly available for use by management.

The software works with Maximo, an IBM maintenance solution. Upon detection of a device failure, PRM issues an instruction to Maximo to draw up a task plan and begin the process of managing the progress of task execution. With PRM R3.31, a symbol (maintenance mark) is displayed over the device icon in the device navigator window that communicates the current state of the task that is being managed by Maximo. The tool is compatible with the latest Maximo versions, 7.5 and 7.6.

Field asset KPI reports contain data about the availability of instruments, the number of instruments that are in an abnormal state, warning status, other states, and the number of alarms and events and their ranking. Maintenance personnel can now directly access field asset KPI reports via the PRM user interface.