Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Technology Fair & Users Conference

Partners featured at Conference

A number of our partners will display their products at the Technology Fair. Companies currently scheduled to participate are listed below. For a more detailed profile on each, go to http://www.yokogawa.com/us/is/usergroup/us-exhibitors.htm and register to attend.
  • Automation.com (Gold Sponsor) (online publication supplying real-time information for automation professionals)
  • Computex (IT infrastructure solutions and sonsulting company)
  • Control Magazine (Platinum Sponsor) (a publication promoting excellence in process automation)
  • Delta P (design/build services specializing in DCS reinstrumentation and power distribution projects)
  • Dresser Masoneilan (control valve solutions)
  • Flowserve (Silver Sponsor) (engineered and industrial pumps, seals and valves, etc.)
  • Hoffman (protection systems for electronic and electrical controls)
  • Hirschmann (networking equipment intended for harsh and mission-critical applications)
  • Intech (Silver Sponsor) (an ISA publication addressing industry challenges, new technologies, and fundamentals for engineers, managers and other automation professionals)
  • Industrial Defender (cyber security)
  • Microsoft (Silver Sponsor) (worldwide leader in software, services and solutions)
  • Metso (ball, butterfly, rotary control valves and more)
  • MooreHawke (TRUNKSAFE™ Fault Tolerant Fieldbus System and more)
  • MTL (Fieldbus power systems and wiring components, intrinsic safety interfaces, surge protection products, etc.)
  • Northwire (industrial-grade technical cable)
  • Phoenix Contact (terminal blocks, power supplies, signal conditioners and data converters, etc.)
  • PI Components (remote diaphragm seals)
  • Pepperl + Fuchs (intrinsic safety and explosion protection technologies, etc.)
  • RuggedCom (ethernet switches, routers, serial deviceservers, media conterters, etc.)
  • Shell Global Solutions (technology-based products, services and consultancy)
  • Turck (valve top sensors, connectivity for analog, discrete and networks, fieldbus junctions and I/O)

Marcus Tennant joins Global Strategic Technology Marketing Center

In January of this year, Marcus Tennant joined our IA Global Strategic Technology Marketing Center where he will function as a Principal Systems Architect. Tennant brings a weatlh of experience in batch automation and the chemical industry to the group. Prior to joining Yokogawa, he spent 10 years at Rockwell Automation where he worked as a Software Product Manager for a wide variety of industrial automation products. Prior to that, he worked as a process and project engineer for Morton International and as a Process Engineer and R & D Chemist for Jones-Blair Company.

Tennant will be working out of Dallas, Texas, where he will report directly to Dr. Maurice Wilkins. He can be reached at
marcus.tennant@us.yokogawa.com.

Yokogawa joins United Nations Global Compact

Yokogawa joined the United Nations Global Compact in January of this year. The organization is a voluntary corporate citizenship initiative consisting of ten principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption. Yokogawa is the 76th participant in Japan.

Learn more about the UN compact.

MVAdvanced portable version

Take a look at the portable version of the MVAdvanced paperless recorder. It features easy setup, reliable recording, an easy to read display, and a feature called "smart analysis". To learn more about the MVAdvanced, contact your local Yokogawa representative or take the quick tour found at the link below.
Take a quick tour

PC Blocks for biotech and pharmaceutical applications

Many biotech and pharmaceutical applications require the measurement of pH and conductivity in very low volume samples to help determine purity and quality of finished products. Our PC Flow Block assemblies were specifically designed to achieve accurate pH and conductivity measurements in these types of applications.

They units are constructed from FDA grade Polypropylene material and can be fitted with a variety of 316 SS Tri-Clamp connections.

Learn more about the flow blocks

ARS (Advanced Reflux Sampler)

The new ARS (Advanced Reflux Sampler) is designed to provide conditioning for severe service analysis needs using a simple self-contained, two-stage system. The first stage is designed to provide filtration of particulate and passive cooling. As the sample reaches the second stage, it is directed through a transition piece which channels the air evenly across two active cooling elements.