Inform, empower, enable...

... the next generation

Exaquantum is one of the most comprehensive Plant Information Management Systems (PIMS) available for process industries. Exaquantum is a tool used to acquire data from all facets of a business and the subsequent transformation of that data into easily usable, high-value, widely distributed information.

Business Benefits

• Information Distribution
• Enhancing Plant Data
• Enhancing Data from PCSs
• Long Term History
• Event Triggered Processing
• Time Resolved Event History
• An Integrated Platform

Operational Benefits

• Enhanced, seamless information flow within and between plant systems and business applications
• Automated instantaneous reporting
• Integrated information from plant data and business systems
• Measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Automatic database configuration and updating
• Rapid and simple implementation
• Industry standard Microsoft Windows operating system

Exaquantum has a very clear business-directed focus to integrate data across a business, delivering operational information to the enterprise as a whole. It is the core technology in the Yokogawa Enterprise Technology Solutions (ETS) concept. Exaquantum provides the industry with powerful plant information management, covering both the business and the process control domains. It eliminates the gap between business systems and process control by integrating information to meet complex business requirements.

Exaquantum provides the basis for Plant Information Management Systems (PIMS) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) that delivers business benefits to users in the Hydrocarbons, Pulp & Paper, Power & Utilities, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Food & Drink, Manufacturing and other continuous or batch processing industries. This is achieved by integrating data from all facets of the business, then transforming these into usable, high-value business information, which can be used as part of the enterprise's vital decision support tool set.

Functionality

Exaquantum delivers comprehensive and varied functionality. The following list covers the major functional groups as a high level indication of the capabilities available:

• Interfacing with plant data systems using industry standard OPC
• Automatic database configuration and management, based on PCS configuration
• Dynamic plant data hierarchy
• Comprehensive job-directed and type-specific historisation, archiving and aggregation of many data types
• Extensive data management
• Flexible scheduled and ad-hoc reporting including embedded Microsoft Excel, Word, Internet/entrant and other applications
• Comprehensive trending facilities for real time and historical data
• Data analysis ranging from standard calculations to complex user defined functions
• User role dependent information display and security
• Closing functions based on the plant's production calendar, including automatic and manual data correction
• Statistical quality and process control
• Powerful user interface available on thick client and web-enabled thin client
• Extensive information exchange with other applications (ODBC, OLE DB, API)
• Alarm and event handling
• Automatic system administration and documentation
• Exaquantum/Web allows users to connect to Exaquantum systems using Internet technology

Features

• Exaquantum maximises the benefits of Microsoft Windows technology in a way that achieves an 'openness' and 'interoperability' that has for so long eluded the computing world.
• Automatic database equalisation ensures Exaquantum always reflects the current status of the plant.
• Historical database and real time database seamlessly provide comprehensive information about all aspects of the plant in real time or historical form.
• Business historian with optimised archiving and aggregation of raw and derived data ensures minimum use of storage media without loss of information.
• Closing calculations are performed according to user defined rules based on the following:
  - Plant production calendar for batch and continuous processes with authorised correction
  - Automatic recalculation (re-closing) and signing off for automatic inclusion in reports.
• Production calendar can accommodate any time period and supports daylight saving.
• Exaquantum provides an extremely powerful and flexible analysis and reporting facility. Drag & drop techniques enable comprehensive displays and reports to be created without programming. Displays can include dynamic graphics, trends, mimics, graphs, charts, spreadsheets, text, alarm & events, tabulated data and embedded objects. Simple scripting is available for users to create any number and complexity of calculations.
• ODBC, OLE DB and API component technology provides extensive information exchange with other applications for inclusion in reports, distributing information etc. (e.g. Internet/entrant for sharing reports with remote sites, inclusion of cctv or sound in displays, obtaining up to the minute commodity values).
• Comprehensive trending facilities provide real time and historical, single or multi-trend groups. Historical trends will seamlessly span recent and archived data.
• Data quality embraces confidence and consistency ratings that are propagated throughout calculations.

Exaquantum employs Microsoft Windows based client/server architecture with direct interfaces to plant data systems and business systems. This architecture enables applications from small single process installations to very large plant wide systems serving many diverse users configured from the same basic components.