Abstract
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed an ISA100 Wireless™-based field wireless vibration sensor with the ability to quickly update data as well as a long battery life.
ISA100 Wireless is a technology that is based on the ISA100.11a standard. It includes ISA100.11a-2011 communications, an application layer with process control industry standard objects, device descriptions and capabilities, a gateway interface, infrared provisioning, and a backbone router.
By providing real-time updates on vibration levels in plant facilities, the new sensor helps users quickly detect equipment anomalies and enables predictive maintenance.
Development Background
With a field wireless system, plant field devices and analysers are able to communicate wirelessly with host-level monitoring and control systems. The rising need to improve productivity and enhance safety by collecting more data on plant operations is driving the demand for field wireless devices, which can be installed even in difficult-to-access locations. Field wireless devices have the added advantage of reducing installation costs.
Vibration sensors are useful for the condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of plant machinery, such as compressors, pumps, and motors. Conventional methods for monitoring vibration include the use of vibration sensors that rely on wired communications with a host system and patrols by maintenance staff to collect vibration data. With the widening use of field wireless systems and the need to reduce installation costs, there is an increasing demand for wireless vibration sensors.
Since releasing the world’s first ISA100 Wireless-based field wireless devices and wireless systems, Yokogawa has expanded its lineup of field wireless devices that measure temperature, pressure, flow rate, and the like. This new vibration sensor will meet the company’s customers’ needs for a device that can provide quick updates on vibration levels needed to detect anomalies at an early stage.
Product Features
The principal components of this field wireless vibration sensor are the FN510 field wireless multifunction module, the LN01 piezoelectric type acceleration sensor, and the FN110 field wireless communication module. Through a gateway device, the FN510 uses the ISA100 Wireless communications protocol to exchange data with a host-level system such as a distributed control system (DCS). The data collected with this vibration sensor enable plant operators and maintenance staff to monitor vibration levels in real time. Both explosion-proof and non-explosion-proof types are available. Key features of this sensor are as follows:
1. Fast data updates
The sensor can be set to update data as quickly as every 10 s. This update time is ideal for monitoring vibration levels in plant facilities.
2. Long battery life and easy maintenance
When the vibration sensor is set to update data once per minute, it can operate on a single set of batteries for up to 10 years. In addition to eliminating the cost of providing replacement batteries, this reduces maintenance workload.
3. Highly reliable and versatile system
Thanks to the features of ISA100 Wireless and Yokogawa’s technical know-how, the company has achieved a highly reliable wireless network with fully redundant communications that is capable of sending and receiving different types of sensor signals over long distances.
Main Specifications
Major Target Markets
Industries such as oil, petrochemicals, chemicals, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, food, and iron and steel.
Applications
Measurement of vibration levels of equipment such as compressors, pumps, motors, and fans.
Yokogawa’s Approach to Field Wireless Communications
Yokogawa released the world’s first ISA100 Wireless system devices and wireless pressure and temperature transmitters in July 2010. In addition to enabling sophisticated control techniques in continuous processes, this gave customers a wider range of devices to choose from.
Yokogawa will continue to expand its lineup of ISA100 Wireless transmitters and other devices such as adaptors to develop best-in-class solutions that provide higher value to customers and promote the use of field wireless technologies.
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About Yokogawa
Yokogawa’s global network of 92 companies spans 59 countries. Founded in 1915, the US$3.7 billion company engages in cutting-edge research and innovation. Yokogawa is active in the industrial automation and control (IA), test and measurement, and aviation and other businesses segments. The IA segment plays a vital role in a wide range of industries, including oil, chemicals, natural gas, power, iron and steel, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, and food. For more information about Yokogawa, please visit http://www.yokogawa.com.
About Yokogawa Europe B.V.
The European headquarters of Yokogawa were founded in Amersfoort in the Netherlands in 1982. Throughout Europe, Yokogawa has its own sales, service, and engineering operations. This dedicated network has been extended to Central and East Europe to further enhance the coverage and support associated with serving the process control and automation market place. Yokogawa develops and produces flowmeters at Rota Yokogawa in Germany and liquid analysers and industrial safety systems in the Netherlands. In addition to this dedicated network of Yokogawa subsidiaries, a select organisation of Test & Measurement (T&M) subsidiaries and distributors is established in certain areas to support the specific customer needs of this continuously developing and specific market of T&M instrumentation.
For further information, please contact:
Maaike Goinga
European Industrial Automation
Yokogawa Europe B.V.
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The Netherlands
Dave Ingle
Peter Bush Communications
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Wendens Ambo
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