Yokogawa Electric Corporation has entered a partnership with Radial Software Group B.V. and will act as a global value-added reseller for this company’s Viewport software. Particularly, with Viewport, Yokogawa will be able to enhance its customer’s asset management capabilities by offering an innovative AI-powered solution that provides a single view of all published technical information. Thereby, reducing risk, contributing to operational excellence, and taking them one step closer to digital transformation.

Here, Yokogawa will be able to manage implementation, integration, and support for instances of the Viewport software running on the Yokogawa Cloud platform for optimal scalability, installation flexibility, and integration with Yokogawa solutions and services.

Aids in Digital Era Transition

To achieve operational excellence, most organizations in the process industry heavily rely on maintenance personnel to discover and map deficiencies and inconsistencies in their processes. However, the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of these efforts can be hindered if they are working with multiple asset documentation systems.

Viewport is a technical search platform with a single interface that provides visibility to all office documents, CAD drawings, scans, images, and equipment data. Notwithstanding a legacy system hosts them or come from other source. The platform supports connectors and APIs, accelerating efficiency, productivity, and safety in industrial environments. Particularly, by providing instant access to correct and up-to-date asset information.

Viewport operates on top of existing systems, creating links between documents and the maintenance management system. Viewport’s AI-powered algorithms allow systems and documents to be indexed in such a way that a powerful. Yet, it creates simple search experience across different assets, bringing everything together in one place.

Most importantly, the system also allows the use of synonym tables for easy searching, the creation of document folders for work preparation or work orders, and the linking of real-time supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data or data historian data to piping and instrumentation diagrams.

On top of operational excellence benefits, Viewport can help companies transition to the digital era by establishing links between existing documentation and pinpointing inconsistencies and flaws in digital data such as drawings and documents.