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Process Control and Automation
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Process Control and Automation Committee2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 242-253
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
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-Challenge to Space-Yasufumi Wakabayashi2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 254-260
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn Japan we have been working for Space Development these 50 years. We join the International Spacestation (ISS) program, and contribute the H-2 transfer vehicle (HTV) every year. This paper describes outline of Japanese space development and its evolution.View full abstractDownload PDF (1072K) -
Wataru Inomata2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 261-266
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe Great East Japan Earthquake did not damage any important facilities used by Tokyo Gas for city gas production and supply operations, but some low pressure pipelines with low earthquake resistance were damaged, forcing the company to suspend supplies of gas to about 30,000 homes to preserve safety. This paper briefly describes initiatives taken by Tokyo Gas to provide prevention from earthquakes and its response to the Great East Japan Earthquake, which is centered on the super-dense real time monitoring earthquake system, SUPREME.View full abstractDownload PDF (1225K) -
Tetsuya Ishizuka2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 267-274
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAt our Ashikaga mill, we have decided to utilize mobile DCS in order to update exist. Since mobile PC was still profound feeling, target was to be portable for operate. Hence, we try to implement tablet PC which has been spreading through the market.
The tablet is not only for DCS, but also can help operator for work procedure, manual operate. We could build different mobile system from previous one by installed function can manage local process record as well.
This report describes the outline of mobile system and operation.View full abstractDownload PDF (731K) -
Kentaro Hayashi2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 275-280
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe introduction of Information Technology (IT) has improved performance, has reduced costs, and has added other important capabilities in industrial control systems. Since this technology has brought malicious attackers from the Internet world to industrial automation world, cyber-security risks such as computer virus infection have increased. Industrial control systems are generally utilized in mission critical infrastructure, so cyber-security is one of the most important concerns.
In this paper, we firstly investigate the root cause of cyber-security risks prior to establish security controls. When introducing security controls, industrial control system users are supposed to build security policies. We show the key points to be considered for the policies. We lastly explore the best cyber-security solution to protect industrial control systems from attacks based upon security policies.
Yokogawa have established Security Competence Laboratory in Singapore,India, America and Japan. The main mission of Security Competence Laboratory is to research cyber-security technologies and to apply them to industrial control systems with our rich experience in industrial automation. Yokogawa have sufficient capabilities to protect industrial control systems from sophisticated attacks.View full abstractDownload PDF (367K) -
-BCM Solutions and Intelligent Earthquake Emergency Shutdown System-Shouichi Osakabe2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 281-284
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSSocial environment surrounding companies has been changing substantially, such as earthquakes occur frequently, cyber attacks on companies etc. Such changes introduce greater complexity and diversify into risks that seriously affect business continuity and increase these serious risk. Companies are facing a “time that is easily exposed to risk”.
Azbil challenges to supporting the manufacturing industry customers for strengthen the risk management measures, improving response to suspend and restore manufacturing equipment operation quickly and safely to minimize a loss and maximize a safety. This paper introduces BCM (Business continuity management) solutions Azbil proposed, including the “Intelligent Earthquake Emergency Shutdown System” that become a high-profile solution in the country.View full abstractDownload PDF (498K) -
-The Case Study in Yatsushiro Mill-Junji Hoshi2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 285-290
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSInstrumentation technology is one of the key technologies of pulp and paper industries and other process industries. And it has contributed significantly to the improved productivity of the plant in the efficiency of production lines and labor saving represented by automation.
On the other hand, personal high-performance computer was released in the late 1980 s. Since then, continued to grow super-accelerated rate, and synergistic with the network technology such as the Internet, it became the basis technology to penetrate deeply well as any industry, even our lives.
In recent years, instrumentation technology has evolved dramatically further by utilizing actively this IT technology, it has great potential depending on the idea.
In this paper, as one of the initiatives aimed at the integration of IT and instrumentation technology, we introduce the application that using it to build and process data warehouse with integrated measurement and control real-time data of the plant. And mention about the future prospects for enhancing the application of measurement and control technology to the future.View full abstractDownload PDF (750K) -
Takeshi Hashida, Takashi Endo2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 291-294
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSRecently, QCS (Quality Control System’s) is becoming one of most important component for Quality Management of papermaking. The result of developing various Quality Sensors and establishing Control strategies, Paper Industry tried to adopt an advanced stage of Production Management with QCS instead of the experimental rules.
However, our industry got big impact through the financial crisis such as the Lehman shock in 2008. So, we started to consider not only for Initial investment but also long term maintenance cost to make a plan to replace or apply new equipment to our mill facilities. Under this kind of our environments, we decided to apply NDC ProNet QCS with Optical Caliper Sensor as 1st trial of thickness measurement for paper machine at Aug 2012. We would like to describe our experiences and evaluation using Optimike as completely non-contacting optical caliper on this paper.View full abstractDownload PDF (411K) -
Sumio Hayakawa2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 295-301
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSOji Kasugai mill has carried out replacements of QCS with the deterioration of electronic components. At the time of consideration of renewing QCS for 100% pulp tissue manufacturing process, sensor suppliers recommended the newly developed fiber basis weight sensor using infrared technology ( “fiber basis weight sensor” ).The characteristics of the fiber basis weight sensor are as follows.
(1) Both basis weight and moisture can be measured by one sensor, and that lead to a cost reduction.
(2) No official permission for containment of radioactive material, radiation protection supervisor or education and training for handling radioactive material are necessary.
(3) Measurement data are influenced by the ash content in the web.
For tissue manufacturing processes which do not contain the loading material, installation of the fiber basis weight sensor is reasonable for many advantages. Oji Kasugai mill therefore has started the introduction of the fiber basis weight sensor into tissue machines since Jan. 2010. As it was the first case of introducing the fiber basis weight sensor to tissue machines in Japan, the formal basis weight sensor using radiation was also installed as a benchmark until the measurement data of the fiber basis weight sensor become reliable.
This paper describes three examples of the installation of the fiber basis weight sensor of two different manufacturers.View full abstractDownload PDF (805K) -
Tetsuo Funaba2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 302-306
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn the recent years, QCS quality control system has become vital component in the paper production.
6 QCS systems have been installed in Chuetsu Pulp & Paper Takaoka Mill.
As for existing QCS system of No.1 machine, which was installed over 18 years ago, and some of the controller parts has passed its maintenance warranty period which makes it difficult for the supplier to supply the parts. Hence, update of the QCS system was brought forward.
Problems with the existing QCS system were that, the upper and lower contact surface of the contact caliper would clamp the paper and leave scratch marks on the paper which would cause the sheet break. This was seen significantly when measuring thin paper such as basis weight 20g⁄m2. Therefore, to resolve this problem a non-contact type caliper sensor has been selected for this QCS system update.
This document explains the measuring of the laser caliper sensor post installation.View full abstractDownload PDF (648K) -
-Tiering Storage Technology to Meet the Diverse Needs-Hitoshi Tanigawa2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 307-310
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn “Big Data⁄Cloud era”, the storage is required for scalability that can accumulate large amounts of diverse data. At the same time, superior performance that can correspond to real-time processing is also required. By the tiering storage technology of “Toshiba Total Storage Platform”, Toshiba realizes a high level of both performance and capacity characteristics, and supports big data and cloud era.View full abstractDownload PDF (398K)
Topics & Information
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Jason Zyglis, Wayne Killmer, Atsushi Kurosaki2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 311-313
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSCognex will present a new level of sophistication for defect detection, specifically tailored for the challenging tissue environment. Using Cognex’s new detection technology, tissue producers can now reliably detect 5-10mm spots and holes with 90% accuracy. Globally, tissue producers are adding vision technology to their production lines at an increasing rate. In addition to sheet break analysis and other process monitoring solutions, the leading producers now require holes and spots to be detected so immediate corrective action can be taken by operatorsView full abstractDownload PDF (352K) -
Riichi Muramatsu2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 314-317
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESS2013 TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials was held at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden from June 24th to 27th, 2013. Approximately 400 delegates gathered mainly from Europe, the US and Canada. The conference included 85 oral presentations and 33 poster presentations.
Summaries of the several presentations are reported.View full abstractDownload PDF (333K) -
2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 318-323
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSEver since the founding of our company as Yamatake Shokai in 1906, and through subsequent name changes to Yamatake-Honeywell, Yamatake, and finally Azbil Corporation, we have consistently provided solutions through the pursuit of measurement and control technology.
On our 100th anniversary we set forth a corporate philosophy to guide our business development in the next century : “We strive to realize safety, comfort and fulfillment in people’s lives, and to contribute to global environmental preservation, through human-centered automation.” At this time azbil, from the words “automation zone builder,” was selected as a reminder of this philosophy, reflecting our wish to realize places of safety, comfort, and fulfillment using automation technology. Six years later, to accelerate our business growth, we changed our company name from Yamatake Corporation to Azbil Corporation. At the same time, domestic azbil Group companies were renamed to include “azbil,” unifying our brand and our company names inside and outside of Japan.
The azbil Group, through each of its three major business areas, helps to preserve the earth’s environment, and provides people with peace of mind, comfort, and a sense of accomplishment. Our major businesses are Advanced Automation, for factories and plants, Building Automation, focusing on commercial buildings, and Life Automation, providing essential services and health care.
As we implement our corporate philosophy, our policy is to be a long-term partner for customers and the community. In our solutions development, we have a threefold emphasis : next-generation solutions for production and working⁄living spaces, energy management solutions, and safety solutions. Our business model aims at domestic and global development by leveraging the azbil Group’s unique products, technologies, and services.View full abstractDownload PDF (846K)
Research Report (Original Paper)
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[in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japane ...2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 325-330
Published: 2014
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Masayuki Watanabe, Hitoshi Takagi, Hiro Iwata, Miyuki Nakagawa, Hitosh ...2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 331-336
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAOX (Adsorbable Organic Halogen) is a useful index of total organic chlorine compounds, and is used internationally as an evaluation method for the paper industry’s effluent. In Japan, AOX discharges from bleached pulp mills had been reduced by changing bleaching processes to ECF (Elementary Chlorine Free) since the last half of 1990s. We confirmed that the Japanese mills have low AOX discharges when compared with other countries. However, the AOX measurement method of Japan was different from other countries. In Japan, AOX was measured by the domestic method based on EPA 9020 B. On the other hand, AOX was measured by the ISO method based on ISO 9562, EPA 1650 and SCAN 9 : 89 in other countries.
Therefore, we investigated the influence of the method on the value. As a result, we found out that AOX measured by the ISO method was higher 1.3 times than the domestic method. It was considered that this result was caused by high hydrophile and low molecular chlorinated organic compounds in the effluent. AOX discharges from the Japanese mills are low, even if we use the ISO method.
We can get the correct value at the same level with the ISO method, using the improved method which changed the washing solution of the domestic method into acid from neutral. Considering the correct value and the convenience, we recommend the improved method.View full abstractDownload PDF (272K)
Coffee break
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[in Japanese]2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 324
Published: 2014
Released on J-STAGE: June 01, 2014
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Papyrus
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2014 Volume 68 Issue 3 Pages 337-339
Published: 2014
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