Yokogawa celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Centum distributed control system: pioneering achievements

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June 20, 2025 – Yesterday, Yokosho Electric Corporation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the launch of Centum, the flagship product, a pioneering distributed control system (DCS), which enabled a new era of automation and control of a wide range of plants and industrial processes.


Now in the 10th generation, Centum was announced in June 1975 as the world’s first DCS, changing the industry’s way of plant management management forever. As one of the first control systems to adopt the use of microprocessors and non-analog CRT interfaces, Centum continues to reinvent generations, reducing its functionality in physical size, and integrating production-related functions and information. Centum’s scalable, interoperable architecture allowed us to support extremely large and complex plants. Along with the company’s unique pair and spare dual redundant design, Centum continues to maintain its legacy of extremely high system availability, expanding its scope of monitoring and control by seamlessly connecting and managing the latest equipment and devices of the digital age.


“We are pleased to announce that we are pleased to announce that we are pleased to announce that we are pleased to announce that we are pleased to announce that we are offering a wide range of services and services. “Industry around the world is undergoing major transformation to build a more sustainable society. The expectations for control technologies are higher than ever, more than ever, from safety and efficiency to progression to digitalization and desalination. A diverse range of business needs. We are committed to providing both safety and reliability.

Centum continues to evolve as a core monitoring and control system that provides reliability, stability and compatibility, while encouraging increased productivity in plants around the world. Looking ahead, Yokohama is continuing to commit to maintaining this legacy while pursuing sustainability, engaging in continuous innovation, providing technology to tomorrow’s industry with the goal of autonomous operation.

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