Nick Cross

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A marketing professional with over fifteen years of progressive experience within digital, marketing and sales environments, Nick joined Yokogawa in 2015 and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the marketing team at Yokogawa Marex. Yokogawa Marex develops specialist software solutions that develop, promote and support software and IT solutions for process information management in production facilities such as oil refineries and chemical/petrochemical plants across the globe.

With an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the marketing environment with a key emphasis on effective customer communication, today Nick is responsible for raising the profile of Exaquantum - Yokogawa’s plant historian solution. By acquiring data from all facets of a process and transforming data into easily usable, high-value, widely distributed information, it enables organisations to achieve safe, reliable and optimal plant operations.

Articles by Nick
Take the pain out of compliance with automated tracking of batch data with Exaquantum/Batch
Take the pain out of compliance with automated tracking of batch data with Exaquantum/Batch

Organizations demand a flawless manufacturing process that can operate across multiple function areas to enable business evolution and provide enhanced control and greater flexibility. The challenge for many businesses is how to improve production and increase the quantity of goods produced. In his latest blog, Nick Cross examines a batch solution which improves production efficiencies and complies with industry regulations.

Plant Historian: Core of your Digital Transformation
Plant Historian: Core of your Digital Transformation

The pace of digital transformation is accelerating, delivering benefits from increased profitability, reduced costs, and higher productivity. In his latest blog, Nick Cross examines how Exaquantum Plant Historian is enabling companies to generate growth from plant data and is at the forefront of digital transformation.

The Top Five Reasons for Monitoring Safety System Performance
The Top Five Reasons for Monitoring Safety System Performance

The primary goal of a safety system is to reduce operational risks and improve the overall process safety of a plant over its entire lifecycle. Learn the top five reasons to monitor safety system performance.

Don’t get driven to distraction by nuisance alarms
Don’t get driven to distraction by nuisance alarms

Nuisance alarms are a symptom of poorly managed alarm systems, they inhibit the effectiveness of Operators and obscure the view of what is really going on - compromising safety and reducing the effectiveness of the alarm system. Yokogawa provides a comprehensive alarm reporting and analysis package which can typically reduce nuisance alarms by 80% and improve alarm system behaviour thus minimizing safety risks and enhancing plant operations.

Is valve degradation your early warning indicator of subsea safety risks?
Is valve degradation your early warning indicator of subsea safety risks?

In his latest article, Nick Cross evaluates a subsea solution that provides an early indication of well valve degradation. Through monitoring, analysis and visualization of subsea data, operators can quickly identify the early signs of valve degradation enabling them to take corrective actions, and support the safe and efficient operations of the subsea environment.  

Is Data the new Oil?
Is Data the new Oil?

Traditionally, oil has been considered one of the most valuable physical assets, but is this important commodity being replaced by data? In this article, Nick Cross evaluates the value of data in the era of digital transformation.

Remove geographical barriers between sites and access multiple plant data via the cloud
Remove geographical barriers between sites and access multiple plant data via the cloud

After many years of deliberation and contention, rapidly changing market conditions have shifted the digital and technological landscapes to permit cloud-based software applications to rapidly gain momentum in the production environment. In his latest blog, Nick Cross explores how cloud-based solutions can remove geographical barriers between sites, enabling cooperation within an organization and improve efficiencies.

Dynamic interlock visualization to reduce production delays and improve operations
Dynamic interlock visualization to reduce production delays and improve operations

In his latest article, Nick Cross explores an interlock monitoring solution which provides an intuitive display of dynamic interlock visualization that mirrors the interlock configuration on the Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS).  Through real-time monitoring and analysis of the interlock data, this software tool can help to reduce production delays and improve operations.

Monitoring Process Safety
Monitoring Process Safety

Download this free eBook to learn how a systematic and disciplined framework will reduce the risk of incidents and uphold the consistency of safety information throughout the plant process.

Regular monitoring of your SIS – are you doing it and is it effective?
Regular monitoring of your SIS – are you doing it and is it effective?

The monitoring of safety instrumented systems (SIS) is becoming more relevant to organizations in today’s process industries. Most are actively gathering some form of measurement to record and assess safety system performance. However, is this information accurate, reliable and fully inclusive to have real certainty to monitor safety system performance?