About Featured Expert: Azbil Corporation

Azbil Corporation are global industry experts in industrial process measurement and control, distributed control systems, field instrumentation, control valves and plant automation. The company’s industrial automation portfolio extends from field sensors and final control elements through plant-wide monitoring, control software, device management and lifecycle support. Its technologies are applied in continuous, batch and hybrid production environments where process stability, equipment availability and reliable operating information must be maintained throughout long plant lifecycles.

At the system level, Azbil’s distributed control portfolio includes the Harmonas-DEO operation monitoring and control system. Developed as a core platform for data-driven plant operations, Harmonas-DEO brings process monitoring and control together with information from smart field devices and supporting diagnostic systems. Batch-control configurations are also available for pharmaceutical and other production environments requiring coordinated recipe, equipment and process management.

Azbil-logo-Featured-Expert-Process-Control-Industry-MonthlyThat system-level capability is supported by a broad field-instrumentation portfolio. Azbil designs and manufactures pressure and differential-pressure transmitters, electromagnetic and vortex flowmeters, level instruments, temperature devices, gas flowmeters, combustion-control products and other measurement technologies. Support for HART and FOUNDATION Fieldbus communications allows device information and diagnostic data to be incorporated into plant asset-management and maintenance workflows.

Azbil’s final-control capabilities include control valves, actuators, smart valve positioners and valve-maintenance support systems. Together, these technologies support process-flow regulation, valve positioning and condition monitoring across installed valve populations. Device-management and diagnostic tools can bring field-device and valve-condition information into the wider control environment, helping maintenance teams evaluate performance without treating each asset as an isolated component.

The company’s software and service capabilities extend this approach across the operating lifecycle. These include production information management, alarm management, advanced process control, asset management, cybersecurity and support for installed automation systems. For facilities operating established Azbil or legacy control platforms, migration and life-extension programs can preserve useful installed infrastructure while modernizing surrounding systems, communications and information-management capabilities.

Azbil serves chemical, refining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food, semiconductor, power, utilities and other process and manufacturing industries. Its wider group also provides building automation and life-automation technologies, all grounded in the company’s longstanding expertise in measurement and control.

Azbil’s corporate roots date to the founding of Yamatake Shokai in 1906. The business later operated under the Yamatake name before adopting the Azbil Corporation name in 2012. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company supports customers through operations across Asia, the Americas, Europe and other global markets. To learn more about Azbil and its capabilities, please click here.

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