Faisal Kidwai, V.P. Sales, Faisal.Kidwai@MerrickSystems.com

Products:
RFID Diamond Tags: Merrick’s ruggedized RFID asset tracking system, including RFID Diamond Tags, software and hardware, was developed to meet the unique needs of oil & gas operations and track downhole, sub-sea and surface equipment . It allows to uniquely identify, track, trace and document high-value assets for location, measurements, maintenance, use, inspection history and certifications. Access to this information in near real-time allows companies to make informed decisions on asset use and re-use, manage assets efficiently, reduce cost and reduce the risk of catastrophic failure, improving the safety of their operations and people. Merrick’s RFID tags can survive the harsh conditions of drilling and subsea operations, including corrosion, abrasives, vibrations, extreme temperatures up to 4000F and pressures of up to 22,500 psi and are readable through thick layers of drilling mud.

RFID features include:

• Various durable and rugged tags and mounting methods for different components including drill pipe, HWDP, subs, drill collars, bits, risers, flow irons, casing, production tubing, safety equipment and any other downhole, sub-sea and surface equipment components that requires tracking
• Tags are rated for sustained temperatures and pressures expected under harsh drilling and operating conditions
• Tags can be installed during the component manufacturing process or retrofitted in the field
• RFID data is linked to corporate-wide asset management, maintenance management and ERP systems including Merrick's Rig-Hand and CATS software or any in-house asset tracking system.

Rig-Hand: Rig-Hand is a drilling operations data-collection software using patented RFID technology to automate the identification of surface or down-hole equipment. Rig-Hand has a mobile component, used on a mobile device with an integrated RFID reader for rig and yard operations (such as scanning pipe upon arrival or tripping in or out of the hole) and a desktop component that is used for drilling engineering, technical and logistics workflows.

A typical Rig-Hand workflow includes design of a drill string schematic, comparison of the planned drill string with the inventory of equipment on the rig and tracking drilling operations as the well is drilled and completed. The drill string information can be viewed in real-time at the rig as well as remotely, at a drilling operations center.

CATS (Corporate Asset Tracking System): CATS provides all necessary asset tracking and management via RFID tags or a combination of tags and bar codes. CATS is a user configurable system utilizing .NET architecture along with a Microsoft SQL database. The application communicates with industrial hardened mobile handheld devices via a wireless link or in a disconnected state (data batching) process. As data objects and associated attributes are transferred to mobile handhelds, data replication is used to transfer the required information for business processes by users. The respective asset tag is associated with the corresponding asset attributes that are either entered into the CATS database directly or via a file transfer from the host ERP system. CATS is an open system which allows IT power users the ability to independently configure the product to meet current and future business processes.

Yokogawa Corp. of America

Yokogawa Electric Corporation
World Headquarters
9-32, Nakacho 2-chrome, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8750, Japan
www.yokogawa.com

Yokogawa Corporation of America
2 Dart Road, Newnan, GA 30265, USA
www.yokogawa.com/us

Yokogawa Europe B.V.
Databankweg 20 3821 AL Amersfoort, The Netherlands
www.yokogawa.com/eu

Yokogawa Engineering Asia PTE. LTD.
5 Bedok South Road, Singapore 469270, Singapore
www.yokogawa.com/sg

Yokogawa Electric China Co., LTD.
22nd Floor Shanghai Oriental Centre
31 Wujiang Road (699 Nanjing West Road) Jing’an District
Shanghai 200041, China
Phone: 86-21-5211-0877 Fax: 86-21-5211-0299

Company Bio:
Yokogawa Corporation of America is the North American unit of US $4 billion Yokogawa Electric Corporation, a global leader in the manufacture and supply of instrumentation, process control, and automation solutions. Headquartered in Newnan, GA., Yokogawa Corporation of America serves a diverse customer base with market-leading products including analyzers, flow meters, transmitters, controllers, recorders, data acquisition products, meters, instruments, safety instrumented systems, distributed control systems and more.

Products:

PRM
Plant Resource Manager (PRM) is a real-time instrument device maintenance and management software package that provides a platform for advanced instrument diagnostics. PRM is an integrated software solution that unifies the monitored data from intelligent and non-intelligent field devices running within Yokogawa’s CENTUM VP and STARDOM control systems or as a stand-alone solution. The key feature of PRM is that it provides easy access to automatically collected data from field networks such as Foundation Fieldbus, and HART allowing integration, management and maintenance these devices using a common database.

PRM provides integrated plant and device performance data, maintenance records, audit trails, device configuration with auto-device detection, historic data management, parameter comparison, advanced device diagnostics information, and access to on-line documentation such as device drawings, parts list and manuals in a client server architecture that provides information to multiple users within a plant facility. It provides the ability to adjust the parameters of intelligent devices online and allows comparison of the current data to historical data of a device.

Fieldmate
FieldMate is an asset management software developed for portable laptop computers that provides configuration and maintenance of intelligent field devices. Fieldmate supports the use of open interface Field Device Tool (FDT) technology to facilitate the configuration and adjustment of field devices such as sensors and valves at production sites, regardless of the manufacturer or the communication protocols. Fieldmate also supports Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) interface technology.

With its device navigation and device maintenance information management features, this software relieves users of the difficulties with dealing with a variety of communication protocols and configuration methods from multiple manufacturers which used different configurators and/or multiple configuration procedures.