08-04-2025

Yokogawa Launches OpreX Plant Stewardship

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the launch today of OpreX^TM Plant Stewardship, the most comprehensive lifecycle service program in the company’s OpreX Sustainable Maintenance family, to support customers in achieving and sustaining operational excellence.　

OpreX Plant Stewardship offers a tailored, performance-based approach that strategically addresses the ever-evolving challenges faced by customers, enabling them to mitigate risks, effectively manage operational challenges, and achieve key performance indicators across all levels of their organization. OpreX Plant Stewardship is available in all regions outside of Japan.

Development Background
With the acceleration of plant complexity, IT/OT integration, cybersecurity threats, and a shortage of skilled resources, traditional product-centric maintenance methods are no longer sufficient. In response to these issues, Yokogawa has expanded its lifecycle services portfolio with a program that ensures service performance across systems, field instruments, analyzers, software, and applications.

Main Features
1. A customer-centric lifecycle approach
OpreX Plant Stewardship is a service program designed through a strategic framework to drive long-term operational excellence. By proactively and systematically addressing risks and challenges, organizations can align their operational strategies with business objectives. Through this approach, Yokogawa works closely with various stakeholders across different levels of the customer’s organization, helping customers navigate complex demands and ultimately find the economic optimum that balances performance, cost, and sustainability.
2. Comprehensive coverage of five dimensions
Leveraging decades of domain expertise, Yokogawa’s service approach is built to provide coverage on five essential dimensions that drive a well-operated, efficient, and resilient business throughout the plant lifecycle:
- Safety & security: Ensuring robust operational safety and cybersecurity measures are in place
- Reliability & availability: Eliminating plant disruptions and improving equipment reliability
- Regulatory compliance: Ensuring compliance with evolving industry regulations while supporting relevant Sustainable Development Goals
- Operational efficiency: Enhancing process efficiency and reducing waste
- Investment efficiency: Optimizing asset investments to maximize long-term value

The five dimensions of OpreX Plant Stewardship
3. Four-step process for continuous engagement
The four-step engagement model ensures effective collaboration with customers:
- Identify: Understanding customer challenges, priorities, and operational risks through an assessment model
- Assess: Evaluating which services and solutions are best tailored to address customer pain points and achieve their operational goals, and crafting a tailor-fitted, long-term collaboration proposal
- Control: Ensuring seamless and effective global delivery of the services and commitment to high-quality output
- Review: Continuously supporting customers through long-term engagement and improvements, utilizing a structured feedback loop to ensure ongoing performance alignment and adaptation to evolving operational needs.

Major Target Markets
Oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, renewable energy, power, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, food, mining, iron and steel, water distribution, and wastewater treatment.

Applications
- Risk-based performance assessment and improvement
- Lifecycle management and mitigation strategies
- Maintenance and reliability enhancement
- Compliance support and regulatory alignment
- Operational performance optimization