Yokogawa UK Ltd., part of the global Yokogawa Corporation, is a supplier of enterprise technology solutions to the process, manufacturing and utility sectors. The company is a technology and market leader in instrumentation and control, and holds many key patents and national and international approvals. Yokogawa UK's headquarters are in Runcorn, Cheshire, with additional system sales support operations in Milton Keynes.

Yokogawa announces functional enhancements to the STARDOM network-based control system

02 February 2006 - Yokogawa UK With the aim of becoming the world's number one provider of industrial automation solutions by the year 2010, Yokogawa is developing highly competitive products for the world marketplace. Based on this strategy, we are continually making enhancements to STARDOM in response to the latest market trends and user needs. The functional enhancements announced today include strengthened network functions, communications functions and newly developed pulse width output modules. This upgrade strengthens the capabilities of the STARDOM control system, which is optimized for high-speed distributed control over a wide area, and enables its use in combination with CENTUM, our flagship distributed control system designed for large-scale main processes. By making these enhancements, Yokogawa is optimizing the solutions that it offers users and will proactively develop the markets for these solutions worldwide.

Yokogawa Analytical Systems to become a wholly owned Agilent subsidiary

31 January 2006 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation and Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that their joint venture, Yokogawa Analytical Systems, will become a wholly owned Agilent subsidiary effective February 1, 2006. Yokogawa will receive approximately $106 million from this transaction, including $98 million from Agilent for its 49-percent share in the joint venture and $7.5 million in dividends from Yokogawa Analytical Systems.

Customer-focused alliance for fieldbus-integrated solutions with dresser equipment group

05 December 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation and the Dresser Equipment Group, Inc, a Halliburton Company, are entering into a customer-focused alliance to develop and market FOUNDATIONTM fieldbus products, integrated systems and management tools to improve process availability.

A next-generation platform that will revolutionize the LCD manufacturing process

24 November 2005 - Yokogawa UK The TandemThroughStage is a positioning platform for eighth-generation mother glass substrates that is used by LCD panel manufacturing devices. It includes a gate-shaped component that moves on the X and Y axes above the substrate. Equipment such as drying and coating devices can be mounted on the TandemThroughStage, enabling its use as a common platform in each of the LCD panel manufacturing processes. This contrasts with conventional assembly processes that use a separate glass substrate positioning stage for each manufacturing device. In addition, an LCD panel transfer robot is provided as a standard feature with the TandemThroughStage. By incorporating both LCD manufacturing devices and a transfer robot, the TandemThroughStage can boost the productivity of an entire LCD panel production line.

Yokogawa wins series of orders in the Middle East

28 October 2005 - Yokogawa UK The oil and gas sector in the Middle East is currently experiencing rapid growth that is being driven by strong global demand and rising prices for petrochemicals and crude oil. Oil producers and petrochemical companies in the region are increasing their investment in plants and equipment, and Yokogawa Electric Corporation is capturing a considerable share of this business.

Yokogawa wins oil movement system contract with the Netherlands Refining Company

28 October 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation is proud to announce that Yokogawa System Center Europe has been awarded a lump sum contract by the Netherlands Refining Company (Nerefco) in Europoort, The Netherlands, to replace the current off-site control system with a fit-for-purpose system.

New DXAdvanced paperless recorder series

13 October 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed the DXAdvanced Data Acquisition Station series of paperless recorders and will release this on November 9. The DXAdvanced Series is a core building block of Yokogawa's VigilantPlant solutions that promise to bring operational excellence to visionary plants, creating an environment where plant personnel can See Clearly, Know in Advance, and Act with Agility.

Yokogawa supports hurricane Katrina disaster relief

09 September 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it is making a 10 million yen (approximately $90,000 U.S. dollars) contribution to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast of the United States. This donation is being made through the Japan Red Cross to the American Red Cross.

Exapilot significantly outperforms initial sales projection

06 September 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that sales of its Exapilot operation efficiency improvement package are double the initial sales projection made at the time of its release in March 2000. As of August 31, more than 500 units have been shipped.

Increase of operating efficiency and ensure stable product supply

30 August 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation is transferring its industrial meter business to the Yokogawa M&C subsidiary, a manufacturer of portable test instruments. The merger of these two businesses will be finalized on October 1 and the new organization will be known as Yokogawa Meters & Instruments Corporation.

Integrated process control system and field instrumentation order

22 August 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that Yokogawa India Ltd. received a US$1.2 million contract in June to construct a production control system based on FOUNDATION fieldbus technology at an oil refinery operated by Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd, a subsidiary of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.

Yokogawa announces new online download function for STARDOM network-based control system

27 July 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has added a online download function to the STARDOM network-based control system. The new version of STARDOM with this function is being released onto the market today.

Yokogawa completes update of top-selling μR series

12 July 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of the μR20000, an advanced industrial recorder that is designed for use with 180-mm recording charts. The μR20000 will go on sale on August 10. This follows the release last November of the μR10000 recorder, which is intended for use with 100-mm wide recording charts. With the launch of the μR20000 recorder, Yokogawa has completed its update of the μR series.

Stable supply of optical communications semiconductor devices

17 June 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has decided to construct a facility for the development and manufacturing of compound semiconductors. The site for this new facility is in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

Release of TB200 optical power meter for development of next-generation optical disk

16 June 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has developed the TB200 Optical Power Meter to measure the optical power output of equipment used with next-generation optical media such as Blu-ray and HD DVD disks. The TB200 will be released on June 17.

New enhancements for precision power analyser

20 May 2005 - Yokogawa UK A number of new features are now available to boost the measurement and communications functions of the Yokogawa WT3000 precision power analyser. The instrument now comes equipped with 30 Mbyte of internal memory and an auto-print function as standard, while USB and Ethernet options provide enhanced communications with external PCs, peripherals and networks.

Orders for new proSafe-RS safety instrumented system

18 May 2005 - Yokogawa UK The ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system, a new product from Yokogawa Electric Corporation that was released just three months ago, has been successively adopted by many leading companies around the world including some in Japan.

BP China LPG plant expansion project

11 May 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation is proud to announce that Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte. Ltd. has been awarded a contract to supply an integrated control and safety system for the phase II expansion of the BP Zhuhai LPG plant on Gaolan Island, which is near the city of Zhuahai in Guangdong Province, China. This single-architecture solution consists primarily of the CENTUM CS 3000 R3 Integrated Control System and the ProSafe-RS Integrated Safety Controller.

Yokogawa marks 30th Anniversary of the CENTUM production control system

06 May 2005 - Yokogawa UK In June, Yokogawa Electric Corporation will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the CENTUM series production control system, a core product of its industrial automation business.

Vnet/IP receives PAS approval from IEC

27 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK The Vnet/IP control network protocol for process automation developed by Yokogawa Electric Corporation has been accepted by the International Electrotechnical Commission for publication as a Publicly Available Specification.

ProSafe-RS safety system receives SIL3 certification from TÜV

25 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK TÜV Rheinland (TÜV), the German certification organisation, has certified the compliance of Yokogawa's ProSafe-RS safety system with the IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 international standards and approved its use in SIL3 applications. ProSafe-RS is the world's first safety system to receive SIL3 certification under the IEC 61511 standard.

Shell selects Yokogawa as a strategic supplier of process control equipment

21 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has been selected by Shell Downstream Manufacturing to be a strategic supplier of distributed control systems and other process control equipment. Yokogawa's relationship with Shell dates back to 1986, when the two companies entered into a global procurement agreement.

Yokogawa offers straight forward migration path to users of legacy Honeywell distributed control systems

19 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa is now offering users of legacy Honeywell distributed control systems a migration path which offers increased reliability combined with a lower total cost of ownership. These legacy Honeywell systems, including the TDC2000/3000 and the TPS, will soon need to be replaced following Honeywell's announcement of their new Experion PKS system, and the Yokogawa migration approach will allow users to replace their systems with the Yokogawa Centum CS3000 system without touching a single wire from the field.

EDD and FDT/DTM technologies to benefit both customers and engineers

12 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will join the steering committee of the Field Device Tool Joint Interest Group to provide customers with more convenient, standards-compliant methods for configuring a wide range of process instruments.

Yokogawa features precision power analyser with high accuracy and wide frequency range

07 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK At PCIM 2005, Yokogawa is featuring a new precision power analyser which combines an exceptionally high accuracy (±0.02% of reading +0.04% of range) with a wide frequency range (DC, 0.1 Hz to 1 MHz), even for power measurements. The new WT3000 can carry out up to four power measurements simultaneously, is easy to operate with direct keys, offers a variety of display formats on an 8.4-inch colour TFT, and includes powerful integrator functions as standard plus a wide range of options to enhance application-specific measurements.

Yokogawa wins main instrumentation and controls contract for South Hook LNG Terminal

07 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has announced the award of a lump sum turnkey contract worth approximately £4M to Yokogawa System Center Europe to provide the main instrumentation and controls for the new South Hook LNG Receiving Terminal that is to be built near Milford Haven, Wales, UK.

New B/M system series featuring highly reliable, state-of-the-art control technology

06 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the development of the B/M9000CS-S measurement and control system. This is a quality control system that is designed for paper production and coating processes in the pulp and paper industry. The new product is being released onto the market today.

Series of compact digital oscilloscopes with GHz bandwidth

01 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed the DL9000 series, a new lineup of compact digital oscilloscopes that are capable of achieving a maximum sampling rate of 10 gigasamples per second (10 GS/s) at bandwidths of 1 – 1.5 GHz. The DL9000 series will go on sale April 1.

Compact digital oscilloscopes offer enhanced waveform display and analysis

01 April 2005 - Yokogawa UK The new SignalXplorer(TM) DL9000 series of digital oscilloscopes from Yokogawa combine high-performance waveform display and analysis functions with the most compact and lightweight design in their class.

Yokogawa offers wide range of validation services

30 March 2005 - Yokogawa UK The Technical Services Department of Yokogawa UK has introduced a comprehensive range of validation services to meet the growing demand for validation within the pharmaceutical and other process industries.

Dpharp EJX series and ADMAG AXF series receive iF design award

30 March 2005 - Yokogawa UK Dpharp EJX Series Differential Pressure and Pressure Transmitters and ADMAG AXF Series Magnetic Flowmeters have won the iF Design Award 2005 (International Forum Design Award 2005). Each year, iF International Forum Design GmbH confers the iF Design Award on the top products from manufacturers worldwide. This year over 1,900 products from 31 countries were submitted in all categories. The Dpharp EJX series and the ADMAG AXF series were given this award in the Industrial Product Design category.

Faster processing redundant CPU configuration & new HART communication-enabled modules

28 March 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has upgraded the autonomous controllers for its new concept, STARDOM network-based control system.The upgraded system, release 1.60, is being released onto the market today.

ProSafe-RS safety system receives SIL3 certification from TÜV

23 March 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that on March 10, 2005, TÜV Rheinland, a German certification organization, certified the compliance of the Yokogawa's ProSafe-RS Safety System with the IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 international standards and approved its use in SIL3 applications. ProSafe-RS is the world's first safety system to receive SIL3 certification under the IEC 61511 standard.

DMOptics offers discounted training on Yokogawa OTDRs

23 March 2005 - Yokogawa UK DMOptics, a specialist supplier of fibre-optic test equipment, has announced that customers buying a Yokogawa OTDR (optical time-domain reflectometer) in 2005 will receive discount vouchers for OTDR training courses with Lucid Training. A division of Lucid Optical Services Ltd., Lucid Training was selected as a well-respected provider of quality fibre optics training.

Yokogawa announces Release 3.06 Upgrade of CENTUM CS 3000 R3 integrated production control system

21 March 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has introduced Release 3.06 of its CENTUM CS 3000 R3 integrated production control system, featuring improved integration with safety systems and other production control systems.

Innovative display and MMI for new PH and conductivity analysers reduce commissioning and operating costs

11 March 2005 - Yokogawa UK The new EXA450 Series from Yokogawa is a family of pH and conductivity analysers that combine a versatile new MMI (man-machine interface) with powerful communications and control functions.

Yokogawa announces release 3.06 upgrade of CENTUM CS 3000 R3

17 February 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed Release 3.06 of the CENTUM CS 3000 R3 Integrated Production Control System (hereafter CS 3000). Featuring improved integration with safety systems and other production control systems, this CS 3000 upgrade will be released to the market on February 18. The CS 3000 production control system is widely used by plants both large and small in process-oriented industries such as petroleum, petrochemicals, natural gas, chemicals, pulp and paper, food processing, and water treatment.

Yokogawa wins main instrumentation and controls contract for South Hook LNG Terminal

09 February 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation is proud to announce the award of an approximately four million pounds sterling lump sum turnkey contract to Yokogawa System Center Europe to provide the main instrumentation and controls for the new South Hook LNG Receiving Terminal that is to be built near Milford Haven, Wales, UK.

VigilantPlant - A revolutionary concept for plant operations

02 February 2005 - Yokogawa UK As the next step in the Vigilance campaign started in 2003, Yokogawa Electric Corporation and its group of companies have launched VigilantPlant, a concept that brings together the Yokogawa suite of products and services for plant optimization and sets a new standard for world-class process control and automation.

Yokogawa releases ProSafe-RS Safety System that integrates control with safety

01 February 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation will launch sales of ProSafe-RS, a new safety system that has been designed for integrated use with process automation applications, on February 2. This safety system is used to constantly monitor the status of oil, natural gas, petrochemical, and other process applications, and ensures safety by shutting down a plant whenever an unexpected condition is detected.

Yokogawa receives long-term maintenance contract for large-scale petrochemical complex in China

25 January 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has concluded a long-term maintenance contract with CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited under which it will maintain the instrumentation equipment at CSPC's Nanhai Petrochemical Complex 2 in Huizhou, China. The contract is for a period of just over four years, from November 1, 2005 to December 31, 2009. Yokogawa will provide round-the-clock support for the Yokogawa products installed throughout the plant, ranging from central control monitoring facilities such as information management systems and FOUNDATION fieldbus compatible integrated production control systems to field devices.

Collaborative integration effort with Honeywell to promote Fieldbus Open Standard

20 January 2005 - Yokogawa UK In support of the fieldbus open standard promoting the digital integration of field instruments and control systems, Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it is joining the Honeywell PKS Advantage Program, a collaborative program by which third party field instrument vendors are integrating their products with Honeywell control systems. Honeywell will distribute Yokogawa's field instruments integrated with Honeywell control systems.

A giant step toward the practical application of next-generation 40 Gbps optical packet networks

17 January 2005 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced in Japan that the company has developed a prototype of a 40 Gbps optical packet network system and succeeded in demonstrating for the first time ever the practicality of using such a network to transmit image data. This success in transmitting image data over an optical packet network system paves the way for an environment in which data packets just like those in existing LANs will be passed between computers at ultra-high speeds. Yokogawa displayed this network system at Fiber Optics Expo 2005 (FOE2005), an optical communications trade fair held at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition center from January 19 to 21.

Yokogawa releases DL750P ScopeCorder with A4 thermal printer

22 December 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of the DL750P ScopeCorder, a waveform measuring instrument that provides enhanced recorder functionality by means of a built-in A4 thermal printer. At the same time, the company is releasing a Universal Module that incorporates both voltage and temperature management functions and which is intended for use with DL750 series instruments.

Enhanced Daqstations offer temperature control and measurement in a single unit

16 December 2004 - Yokogawa UK The new Daqstation CXl000/CX2000 Style 3 from Yokogawa UK are upgrades of the Daqstation CX Series low-cost control and measurement systems incorporating a number of new features that make them ideally suited to temperature monitoring and control in furnaces and small-scale processes.

Coriolis mass flowmeter combines enhanced performance with applications versatility

09 December 2004 - Yokogawa UK The new RotaMASS 3 Series Coriolis mass flowmeter from Yokogawa UK builds on the success of RotaMASS, Yokogawa's best-in-class instrument, by incorporating a number of enhancements in performance as well as features that extend its versatility.

High-performance ST6730 FPD driver IC test system and AH9610 auto-handler

26 November 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed the ST6730 Flat Panel Display Driver IC Test System, which achieves high-speed multi-pin testing, and the AH9610 Auto-handler, which is designed for use with tape carrier and chip-on-film packages. Both products are being released onto the market today and will be exhibited at the SEMICON Japan 2004 trade show, which starts December 1 at the Makuhari Messe, near Tokyo.

World's first dual-mode service tester for W-CDMA and GSM systems

24 November 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed a VC200 series of mobile phone testers that includes the first ever dual-mode service tester supporting both W-CDMA and GSM communications systems. The VC200 series will be released onto the market on November 25 and is targeted for use on production lines and in service shops.

New addition to top-selling μR series industrial recorder

08 November 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the development of the μR10000, the latest addition to the μR series of advanced industrial recorders. The μR10000 will go on sale on November 9. The μR10000 is designed for use with 100-mm wide recording charts and is the successor to the μR1000, which has been a best seller in this product category since its launch in 1992 thanks to its excellent reliability and advanced functions.

New-concept realtime OS-based e-RT3 eMbedded m@chine controller

02 November 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed the e-RT3 eMbedded M@chine Controller, a new concept product that runs under realtime operating systems* and is designed to be built into semiconductor manufacturing equipment and electronic component/equipment assembly systems. The market release for the e-RT3 is scheduled for November 17.

Major Taiwanese Petrochemical Company orders production control system

28 October 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its Taiwan affiliate, Yokogawa Taiwan Corporation, has been awarded a contract to supply the production control system for a world-class ethylene plant that is being built in Taiwan by Formosa Petrochemical Corporation. FPCC is a major petrochemicals manufacturer that operates large-scale plants in Taiwan, Texas, and other locations, and is a subsidiary of the Formosa Group, a leading Taiwanese manufacturing concern.

Sales launch of seven new modules for DAQMASTER MX100 PC-based data acquisition unit

12 October 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it is launching the sale today of seven I/O modules that have been newly developed for the DAQMASTER MX100 PC-based data acquisition unit. These modules and their applications are:

Yokogawa wins contract to supply FOUNDATION fieldbus solution

04 October 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has been awarded a contract to supply FOUNDATION Fieldbus instrumentation for the Groningen gas field development project.

Service system improved to develop industrial automation & control business in China

30 September 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the opening of a new service office by its Chinese subsidiary, Yokogawa Electric China Co., Ltd. This new office will open on October 1, 2004, in Huizhou, Guangdong Province (southern China), and will better position the company to capitalize on the increasing opportunities for the industrial automation and control business in China.

Yokogawa dramatically enhances configuration & control functions of STARDOM control system

27 September 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has strengthened the solutions that it offers to the manufacturing sector by significantly enhancing the configuration and control functions of its STARDOM network-based control system. This newly enhanced system is being released to the market today.

Alliance with ICS Triplex for compressor control applications

20 September 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has formed an alliance with ICS Triplex, the leading supplier of high availability, high reliability Triple Modular Redundant technology, to provide compressor control technology for the STARDOMTM Network-based Control System.

Yokogawa Power & Marine sign INtools-CENTUM CS 3000 integration development agreement

15 September 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation and The Process, Power & Marine division of Intergraph Corporation have signed a software integration development agreement. Under terms of the agreement, the companies are working together to develop an interface between the Yokogawa CENTUM CS 3000 R3 distributed control system and the Intergraph INtools lifecycle instrumentation engineering, design and operational documentation software.

CENTUM CS 3000 R3 release 3.05 with enhanced remote operation & monitoring functions

10 September 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed CENTUM CS 3000 R3 Release 3.05, an upgraded version of its flagship integrated production control system featuring enhanced functionality, including remote operation and monitoring. The new system will be available from September 13, 2004. The CENTUM CS 3000 R3 production control system is designed for the control of petroleum, natural gas, chemical, and other small- to large-scale process-oriented plants.

Yokogawa transfers several development and marketing functions to Singapore

26 August 2004 - Yokogawa UK In the first ever meeting of the Board of Directors of Yokogawa Electric Corporation (the Company) held in Singapore, approval was given today for Yokogawa Engineering Asia to play an expanded role as a knowledge intensive center. As such, this Singapore subsidiary will perform three key tasks to accelerate the growth of the industrial automation business in the global market and carry out business development in new markets.

New Houston office to strengthen presence in North American petroleum & petrochemical markets

22 July 2004 - Yokogawa UK To further accelerate the expansion of its industrial automation operations in North America, Yokogawa Electric Corporation's North American subsidiary, Yokogawa Corporation of America, is constructing a new office building in Houston, Texas, and plans to move from its current Houston location to the new premises around June 2005.

Release of Ethernet-enabled UT551 digitaliIndicating controller with gateway function

02 July 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of the UT551 Digital Indicating Controller, a product that enables users in fields ranging from production to research and development to acquire temperature, pressure and flow rate data and to make changes to controller settings via an Ethernet connection. Also being released today is an Ethernet-enabled version of the GateMODBUS 1 interface component for the DAQWORX Data Acquisition Software Suite.

Yokogawa releases AAASuite alarm management system

01 June 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has completed development of AAASuite, a comprehensive alarm management system that optimizes and enhances process alarms issued by control systems. AAASuite improves operator performance by providing timely notification of only necessary alarms, thereby preventing alarm flooding and enabling safe, stable, and cost effective plant operations. The marketing of this new product starts today.

Global partnership agreement with Degussa, major German chemical manufacturer

24 May 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has concluded an agreement with Degussa, a major chemical manufacturer in Germany, to be a global supplier of process control systems for plant automation. The Yokogawa products and services covered by this new agreement include CENTUM CS 3000 integrated production control system hardware / software.

Yokogawa wins contract to provide upstream measurement & control facilities for project in Sakhalin

09 March 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has been awarded contracts to supply the complete upstream measurement and control facilities for the Sakhalin II crude oil and natural gas development project in the Sakhalin Region of the Russian Far East.

Business and Group reorganization to spur growth

24 February 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has been restructuring its businesses and innovating new group management practices as called for by its corporate strategy, VISION-21 and ACTION-21, which was announced in January 2000. With this corporate strategy, Yokogawa set fiscal year 2005 as its first milestone and targeted the achievement of an operating income of 50 billion yen. To achieve this goal and to sustain growth, the company will continue its restructuring by integrating the businesses of three subsidiaries.

Yokogawa develops prototype of 40-Gbit/s optical packet switch

16 February 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed a prototype of an ultra-fast 40-Gbit/s optical packet switch using compound semiconductors and fast electronic circuit technologies that is unrivalled in its switching speed and small size. With this innovation, Yokogawa now enjoys the prospect of being able to commercialize optical packet communications for use in local area networks in fiscal year 2005, 10 years earlier than was originally anticipated.

pH and conductivity transmitters with Profibus PA outputs

13 February 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has released new versions of its proven pH and conductivity transmitters with Profibus PA communications interfaces. The inclusion of Profibus PA outputs in the company's EXA Series of CE-approved 2-wire transmitters completes the suite of available outputs that already includes Foundation Fieldbus, HART and conventional 4 - 20 mA.

Yokogawa Electric and Yokogawa Digital Computer jointly announce release of AX200

05 February 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Yokogawa) and Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation (Yokogawa Digital Computer) have jointly developed the AX200, a protocol analyzer that is intended specifically for use with memory cards based on the Secure Digital format. With this analyzer, developers can efficiently evaluate and verify both the hardware and software of devices that are compatible with SD memory cards. The analyzer will be available from February 12, 2004.

Yokogawa upgrades flagship CENTUM CS3000 control system with new FFCS compact controller

21 January 2004 - Yokogawa UK CENTUM CS3000 R3.04, the latest version of Yokogawa's flagship CENTUM CS3000 distributed control system, offers greatly enhanced functionality with the inclusion of a new compact controller that enables the system to accommodate a wider range of applications, including small-scale plants.

Release of remote equipment monitoring application package

13 January 2004 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed a new remote equipment monitoring and control application package called eCUBE that runs on STARDOM, a new-concept network-based control systems that was launched in March 2002. The eCUBE package is available from January 30, 2004.

Pressure transmitters meet latest process industry safety standards

06 January 2004 - Yokogawa UK The new DPharp EJX Series of differential pressure and pressure transmitters from Yokogawa UK combine new sensing techniques to ensure high accuracy and stability with built-in safety features that meet the requirements of the latest process industry safety standards.

PC-based data-acquisition platform delivers rugged industrial and portable measurements in a modular networked architecture

09 December 2003 - Yokogawa UK The MX100 DAQMaster from Yokogawa UK is a modular, distributed PC-based data acquisition system designed for process monitoring and distributed I/O. Exploiting Yokogawa's decades of application and design experience in industrial automation and test and measurement, the MX100 DAQMaster provides the most durable, reliable, and robust performance, even in electrically and environmentally harsh conditions.

Yokogawa recorders boost process productivity for Pirelli Tyres

07 November 2003 - Yokogawa UK Paperless recorders supplied by Yokogawa UK are playing a key role in improving process productivity at the Pirelli Tyres production plant on the outskirts of Carlisle in Cumbria, UK.

Strategic new products for the Global IA Business

21 October 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has developed the DPharp EJX Series of differential pressure and pressure transmitters. The new DPharp EJX transmitters to be added to the current EJA Series of the Dpharp family will be launched during 2003 as strategic new products that will target the global industrial automation business.

Yokogawa receives order for large terminal project in Nigeria

07 October 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that Yokogawa Electric Korea Co., Ltd., the company's Korean subsidiary located in Pupyong-ku, Inchon, has been awarded a contract by Hyundai Heavy Industries to participate in the Bonny Island Terminal Project for Shell Petroleum Development Corporation in Nigeria.

PC-based data-acquisition software suite

01 October 2003 - Yokogawa UK Now available from Yokogawa Martron is DAQWORX: an integrated PC-based data-acquisition software package for Yokogawa's family of data-acquisition systems, paperless recorders and other measuring instruments.

Ando Electric Co Ltd takes on new role as Yokogawa's Communications Measuring Instruments Specialist

30 September 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it acquired all the stocks of Ando Electric Co., Ltd through a stock swap as of October 1, 2002. This will mark the start of a new role for Ando as the Yokogawa Group's specialist in communications measuring instruments.

Latest upgrade equipped with new compact controller

18 September 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of CENTUM CS 3000 R3.04, the latest version of its flagship CENTUM CS 3000 R3 integrated production control system. The functionality of this new product has been greatly enhanced with the inclusion of a new FFCS compact controller that enables the control system to accommodate a wider range of applications, including small-scale plants.

Yokogawa wins major distributed control system project in Oman

11 September 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that Yokogawa Middle East,its subsidiary in Bahrain,has been selected to be the main instrument vendor for the design, engineering and supply of a process automation system for the Saih Nihayda Gas Plant that is being built by Petroleum Development Oman.

Yokogawa to provide measurement & control facilities to gas development project in Sakhalin

27 August 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has been awarded a contract to supply the complete downstream measurement and control facilities for the Sakhalin II crude oil and natural gas development project in the Sakhalin Region of the Russian Far East. The contract was awarded by Chiyotec Limited, a joint venture between Chiyoda Corporation and Toyo Engineering Corporation.

PC-based data-acquisition system combines high performance with flexible multi-channel capabilities

12 August 2003 - Yokogawa UK The new MX100 DAQmaster from Yokogawa is a PC-based data-acquisition system that combines high-speed performance with flexible multi-channel capabilities and a high withstand voltage for the most demanding applications.

Saint Gobain Glass selects Yokogawa Electric Corporation for process control.

15 July 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) announces that it has entered into an agreement with Saint Gobain Glass (Paris, France) to be a global supplier of Process Control Systems for plant automation. The three year non-exclusive agreement applies to all Saint Gobain Glass affiliates with greater than 50 percent ownership. The Yokogawa products and services covered by this new agreement include the CENTUM CS3000 integrated production control system hardware / software.

TÜV certifies Yokogawa System Center Europe's Compliance with IEC61508

14 July 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its subsidiary in the Netherlands, Yokogawa System Center Europe B.V. (Yokogawa SCE), has been certified by TÜV Rheinland as being compliant with the IEC 61508 international safety standard.

World's first magnetic flowmeters with electrode adhesion diagnostic function

07 July 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of an upgraded version of its ADMAG series magnetic flowmeters, which can measure liquid flow with high accuracy, and will launch marketing of this as the ADMAG AXF series both inside and outside Japan on July 11.

Yokogawa selected to modernize control system for Mongolia's largest power station

26 June 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Yokogawa) announces that the government of Mongolia has awarded a contract exceeding US $5 million (¥650 million) to Yokogawa to supply a Distributed Control System for the Package 2 Rehabilitation Project (Phase 2) at the country's 4th Thermal Power Plant. The scope of the Package 2 Rehabilitation Project is four coal-fired boilers, units five through eight, each of which generates 420 tons per hour of steam.

Temperature control and management in a single unit

12 June 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of the DAQSTATION CX1000/CX2000 Style 3. This is an upgrade to the DAQSTATION CX Series control and measurement systems that were first launched in November 2001.

Air protocol analyser for UMTS/W-CDMA testing

12 June 2003 - Yokogawa UK The new ABiT AP-4000, available exclusively from Yokogawa, is an air protocol analyser for testing the latest third-generation UMTS (W-CDMA) mobile communications systems.

STARDOM continues to evolve with release of InfoWell data casting tool

11 June 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the June 11 launch of InfoWell, a new application package for the STARDOM Network-based Control System, which greatly facilitates the addition of data casting capabilities.

Yokogawa releases DAQWORX data acquisition software suite

03 June 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release on June 6 of DAQWORX, a PC-based integrated data acquisition software package for acquiring and recording data from equipment used in the production and research & development environments. The DAQWORX data acquisition software acquires and records data such as flow rate, pressure, temperature and voltage from production and test equipment.

Data management software for multimedia display tester

23 May 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has developed a new data management software package for use with the company's Model 3298 multimedia display tester. The new software downloads measurements from the handheld tester to a PC, and displays data tables, chromaticity diagrams, deviation charts and trend graphs. It can also read data stored in the display tester's memory.

Yokogawa selected by Eraring Energy for large power station in Australia

20 May 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that Eraring Energy, a major electricity generating corporation in Australia, has placed a contract with Yokogawa Australia for an Integrated Control and Monitoring System to replace the control systems at Eraring Power Station. Eraring Power Station, located 125km north of Sydney in New South Wales, is one of the largest power generation plants in Australia. It comprises four 660MW coal-fired boiler/steam generator units.

Exaquantum/batch PIMS software package for batch processing industries

15 May 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced today the release of Exaquantum/Batch, a plant information management system designed for batch processing in industries such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food processing.

Online FT-NIR process analyser runs without a PC

14 May 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa UK has introduced a new FT-NIR (Fourier transform near-infrared) analyser which combines excellent signal/noise ratio with high reliability. Designed for the online measurement of multiple properties in liquid streams in process or laboratory applications, the new InfraSpec NR800 is a multi-channel instrument which combines high wavelength resolution, outstanding accuracy and a wide scanning range.

Yokogawa awarded FED for first phase of Shell Norco Chemical Reinstrumentation Program

23 April 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced today that Yokogawa Corporation of America, its North American subsidiary located in Newnan, Georgia, has been awarded the Front End Development of the first phase of the Shell Norco Chemical Reinstrumentation Program. The entire reinstrumentation program at Shell Chemical LP's operation in Norco, Louisiana, has an estimated value of US $50 million.

Petroleum Development Oman Awards Yokogawa with first major STARDOM order in Middle East

31 March 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the award of the first major STARDOM project in Middle East estimated to be worth EUR 6 million in January 2003. Petroleum Development Oman, a Shell operating company, awarded Yokogawa System Center Europe with the major STARDOM order.

Latest addition to oscilloscope range offers exceptional value in price/performance terms

21 February 2003 - Yokogawa UK The DL1640S from Yokogawa is the latest addition to the company's DL1640 family of digital oscilloscopes, which also includes the instrument with the world's longest memory of 32 K word per channel. The new DL1640S incorporates most of the measurement and display features of the top-end DL1640L model, and with a price of less than £3500 it offers exceptional value for money for an instrument with 100 K word of memory per channel, 200 MS/s sampling, and 200 MHz bandwidth.

Yokogawa releases advanced efficiency improvement solution Exapilot R2.20

12 February 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the release of Exapilot Release 2.20, an upgrade to its well-received Exapilot Operation Efficiency Improvement solution. Exapilot R2.20 powerfully aids a control system in automating those areas of non-steady-state operations that have been unavoidably performed manually thus posing hindrances to boosting production efficiency.

Dust monitor combines stability and durability for long-term maintenance-free operation

05 February 2003 - Yokogawa UK The new Model DT400G dust monitor from Yokogawa combines stability and durability for long-term maintenance-free operation in applications such as electrostatic precipitation, powder transport and dust recovery.

Digital oscilloscopes feature unprecedented mixed-signal multichannel capability

21 January 2003 - Yokogawa UK The new DL7400 Series of digital oscilloscopes from Yokogawa feature an unprecedented mixed-signal, multi-channel capability, combining up to eight analogue input channels with a 16-bit logic input channel while simultaneously achieving a maximum sampling rate of 2 GS/s (gigasamples per second), a bandwidth of 500 MHz, and a maximum memory capacity of 16M words.

Yokogawa wins large Gas Field Control Project in Algeria

20 January 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the award of a contract for supply of equipment for the first phase of the In Salah Gas project, jointly operated as In Salah Gas by BP Exploration (In Salah) Limited and Sonatrach. The order was awarded by M.W.Kellogg Ltd., who is jointly owned by JGC Corporation and Kellogg Brown and Root.

Yokogawa flowmeter optimises concrete flow in ground-breaking application

15 January 2003 - Yokogawa UK A Yokogawa flowmeter is playing a key role in a novel application for one of the world's leading ground engineering contractors. Keller Ground Engineering is using the meter to monitor the flow of fluid concrete in a technique known as continuous flight auger (CFA) for producing piles for foundations.

Yokogawa wins E 60M contract for gas-field automation project

09 January 2003 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has announced the award of a contract estimated to be worth more than €60M for a gas renovation project being undertaken by the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV (NAM). The contract was awarded to the STORK-GLT consortium, of which Yokogawa is a member. The installation is located in the province of Groningen, Netherlands.

Yokogawa excels & wins 60 M EUR automation project phase 2 of NAM Project

09 January 2003 - Yokogawa UK Tokyo, Japan, Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the award of a project estimated to be worth more than EUR 60M. The gas renovation project by the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V., was awarded to the STORK-GLT consortium, of which Yokogawa Europe is a member.

Engine combustion pressure analysis package

17 December 2002 - Yokogawa UK An engine combustion analysis package for use with Yokogawa's digital oscilloscopes and data-acquisition systems is now available from Yokogawa Martron. The new software package enables engine combustion pressures to be analysed for engines using a variety of fuels, with versions available for both gasoline and natural-gas engines.

Release of DL7400 series digital oscilloscopes

05 December 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed the DL7400 series of digital oscilloscopes. The series features an unprecedented mixed-signal multichannel capability, which combines eight analog input channels with a 16-bit logic input channel, while simultaneously achieving a maximum sampling rate of 2 GS/sec, a bandwidth of 500 MHz, and a maximum memory capacity of 16 megawords. The DL7400 series is scheduled to be available on December 6.

Yokogawa wins $50M fieldbus project

25 November 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited selected it as the Main Automation Contract for the large petrochemical complex project. The order value is estimated to be $50 million US Dollars.

Launching of world's first memory stick protocol analyzer

19 November 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation and Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation announced that they have jointly developed a Memory Stick Protocol Analyzer, which will be available to the market beginning on December 15, 2002.

World's first production control system for Windows XP

14 November 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has added Windows XP functionality in the latest version of its Centum CS3000 distributed control system (DCS), making it the world's first product of its type to feature this operating system. CS3000 is the pre-eminent control system in the world, with over 6000 installed in high-integrity plants and processes globally; it was also the first DCS system launched in the 1970s, and is unique in having a migration path that fully encapsulates all its systems back to the original launch.

Paperless recorders for steriliser testing to HTM2010/2030

07 November 2002 - Yokogawa UK A new family of portable intelligent paperless recorders configured to carry out steriliser testing in compliance with HTM2010/2030 requirements has been introduced by Yokogawa Martron.

Yokogawa releases exaquantum plant information management system R2.01

28 October 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has developed Exaquantum R2.01, an upgraded version of the Exaquantum Plant Information Management System for petroleum, chemical, and other various types of plants.

New instrument tests quality of multimedia displays

22 October 2002 - Yokogawa UK The new 3298 Multimedia Display Tester from Yokogawa Martron is a quality-of-display instrument designed to test the display screens used in modern multimedia products such as notebook computers, PDAs, games consoles and digital cameras.

Realignment of production facilities in Japan

12 October 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced an extensive realignment of its production facilities in Japan to be completed by the end of fiscal year 2003, to enhance cost competitiveness in the rapidly changing global market.

Yokogawa establishes Chinese Business Headquarters in Suzhou, China

11 October 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the establishment of Yokogawa Electric China Co., Ltd. as a wholly-owned regional headquarters, to supply the fast growing Chinese market. Yokogawa has been contributing to the industrial modernization of China since the 1950's through technology transfer, the establishment of several joint ventures and a fully-owned company producing or marketing measuring instruments and industrial automation.

Yokogawa establishes Chinese Business Headquarters in Suzhou, China

11 October 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the establishment of Yokogawa Electric China Co., Ltd. as a wholly-owned regional headquarters, to supply the fast growing Chinese market. Yokogawa has been contributing to the industrial modernization of China since the 1950's through technology transfer, the establishment of several joint ventures and a fully-owned company producing or marketing measuring instruments and industrial automation.

Digital oscilloscope family has world's longest memory

02 October 2002 - Yokogawa UK The new DL1640 SignalExplorer family of digital oscilloscopes from Yokogawa features the world's longest memory (32 Mword) along with 4-channel simultaneous operation and real-time digital filtering.

Yokogawa releases version R3.03 ppgrades

20 September 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the release of version 3.03 of the CENTUM CS 3000 Integrated Production Control System for large, and medium,scale plants and version 3.03 of the CENTUM CS 1000 Production Control System for medium and small-scale plants. The upgrades will be available on September 24.

Low-cost non-intrusive Bluetooth protocol analyser

18 September 2002 - Yokogawa UK Now available from Yokogawa Martron, the Mobiwave D10 is a low-cost non-intrusive Bluetooth protocol analyser that is designed to test to see if equipment is performing to design standards without interfering with network traffic.

Yokogawa & Ando join forces to be one of the World's top three test & Measurement suppliers

14 September 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Yokogawa) and Ando Electric Co., Ltd. (Ando) have agreed that, for the purpose of enhancing and expanding business in device testers, including device handlers and communication test, they will unify their businesses and reorganize. The companies also announced that Yokogawa will acquire 100 percent of Ando shares through a stock swap effective October 1, 2002.

Digital flowmeter adds DSP technology to field-proven sensor

12 September 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has introduced DigitalYEWFLO, the latest in a successful line of vortex flowmeters that have been pushing back the boundaries of flow measurement since their introduction back in 1969.

$30M project Yokogawa's Control System & field instruments selected for major project

05 September 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the award of a major control system project to be installed in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The estimated $30 million USD project includes Yokogawa's integrated control system CENTUM CS3000 R3 and field instruments including pressure, temperature and flow.

CENTUM CS3000 certified by ABS for ship automation system

02 September 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that the CENTUM CS3000 Integrated Control System has been certified by the American Bureau of Shipping for ship automation control. Since its release in 1998, the CENTUM CS3000 has been successfully applied to various industries as a fieldbus-ready industrial distributed control system solution.

High-frequency current probe

28 August 2002 - Yokogawa UK Now available from Yokogawa Martron, the 700937 oscilloscope probe is a high-performance device designed for current measurements in high-frequency switching systems typically used in power electronics applications.

High-performance digital sampling power meters

14 August 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has introduced a new range of digital sampling power meters which combine high performance with versatility for a wide range of power measurement and energy management applications.

Portable waveform measuring instrument offers one gigaword of memory

30 July 2002 - Yokogawa UK The new DL750 ScopeCorder from Yokogawa is a truly portable waveform measuring instrument that combines recorder and oscilloscope technologies. The instrument's exceptional memory length of up to one gigaword coupled with 10 MS/s sampling makes it ideally suited to the capture and analysis of high-speed signals over long time periods of up to ten days.

Yokogawa IS100 & IS700 network intrusion sensors adopt VShell encrypted communication software

22 July 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that the company has adopted the VShell secure shell based encrypted communication software from VanDyke Software in the United States (headquarters: Albuquerque, New Mexico; CEO: Jeff P. Van Dyke) as an option for its IS100 and IS700 network intrusion sensors that detect unauthorized access to a network. Yokogawa has begun marketing of the IS100 and IS700 with the VShell option.

pH and conductivity transmitters with Foundation Fieldbus communications

12 July 2002 - Yokogawa UK Two of Yokogawa's most successful process instrumentation products - the EXA PH202 pH transmitter and the EXA SC202 conductivity transmitter - are now available with Foundation Fieldbus communications. Both devices have been verified for conformance and interoperability to the Fieldbus Foundation's specifications, ensuring compatibility with the industry-standard networking specification.

Multipath fading generator for wireless communication testing

26 June 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Martron has introduced multipath fading generator software for use with the Yokogawa range of I/Q (in-phase/quadrature) signal generators in tests on wireless communication systems and 3GPP applications.

Maintenance contract for I&C System of largest power plant in Mongolia

12 June 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has concluded a four-year maintenance contract for the Instrumentation & Control system of the Ulaanbaatar Fourth Thermal Power Plant, the country's largest coal-fired power plant. This is the first maintenance contract for Mongolia with a foreign company.

Yokogawa recorders receive third-party confirmation of compliance to 21CFR-11

25 May 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has received independent third-party confirmation that its DAQSTATION DX100P and DX200P paperless recorders meet the electronic record and signature requirements of FDA Regulation 21CFR Part 11, covering the storage of electronically produced data in the pharmaceutical industry.

Wireless keypad eases data entry for 21 CFR 11 compliant pharmaceutical recorders

16 May 2002 - Yokogawa UK A new wireless remote-control keypad option has been introduced by Yokogawa UK to simplify data entry on its DAQSTATION DX100P and DX200P range of paperless recorders for pharmaceutical applications.

High-precision digital jitter meter

16 May 2002 - Yokogawa UK The new TA120F from Yokogawa Martron is a digital jitter analyser for making measurements on optical disks including CDs and DVD/ROMs. With its simple, easy-to-read analogue display, it is ideally suited to production-line applications. The new instrument uses Yokogawa's TIA (Time Interval Analysis) system to carry out highly repeatable precision measurements with a continuous sampling rate of 10 MS/s.

Yokogawa and Shell revive North Sea platform with fieldbus technology

16 May 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that Shell UK Exploration and Production has selected the Yokogawa CENTUM CS 3000 Distributed Control System for a major upgrade of the Brent Alpha North Sea production platform. The $1.32 million project includes the DCS and integrated Emergency Shutdown and a Fire & Gas safety system, utilizing Foundation Fieldbus technology in the field devices.

A truly portable waveform measuring instrument with 1-GWord of memory

09 May 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced today that it has developed the DL750 ScopeCorder and will release it to Japanese market on May 13, 2002, and to others on May 27. The new DL750 product is the latest in the DL700 series of waveform measuring instruments that can be used for observing a wide variety of waveforms from physical to electric signals. The DL750 ScopeCorder has incorporated 1 gigaword of memory, the largest for this class of device, and is half the size of previous generation products. It is also equipped with the GIGAZoom function, which uses a specially developed ASIC to instantaneously display data stored in the large memory.

ADSL loop tester for field troubleshooting

26 April 2002 - Yokogawa UK The new LX100 from Yokogawa Martron is a comprehensive portable test tool for the field troubleshooting of ADSL services over copper cable. The LX100 provides a graphical display of all the essential test data required for effective troubleshooting, including attenuation, noise, TDR measurements, burst noise waveform and complex impedance.

Mobiwave D10 Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer in alliance with Singaporean communication manufacturer

16 April 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation launched today the Mobiwave D10 Bluetooth protocol analyzer, which has features comparable to existing products for a third of the price. The Bluetooth protocol analyzer was developed by Mobiwave Pte. Ltd. headquartered in Singapore. Yokogawa entered into partnership with Mobiwave Pte. Ltd. to become the exclusive sales agent for Mobiwave D10 under the Yokogawa-Mobiwave label in the Japanese, North American, and Oceanian markets. Yokogawa will offer warranties and services for Mobiwave products, and in accordance with the alliance, both companies will cooperate in marketing Mobiwave products.

SPI/ASI interface convertor for DVB applications

12 April 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Martron has introduced a new serial/parallel interface convertor, the Model 70656, to assist with test equipment conversion requirements in the development of DVB systems.

Paperless recorder meets electronic signature requirements of FDA Regulation 21CFR Part 11

19 March 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa has introduced a range of paperless recorders specifically designed to meet the electronic record and signature requirements of FDA Regulation 21CFR Part 11, covering the storage of electronically produced data in the pharmaceutical industry.

Yokogawa prototypes 16-to-1 multiplexer system-A quantum leap

19 March 2002 - Yokogawa UK Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has prototyped a 16-to-1 signal multiplexer that multiplexes sixteen 2.5-Gbps signals into one 40-Gbps signal and the prototype has demonstrated that it can successfully produce a 43-Gbps waveform, which makes it viable for commercial applications. Yokogawa will exhibit this prototype system at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, a world-renowned optical communication show in Anaheim, California, USA, from March 19 to 21.