Yokogawa releases platform for advanced control and estimation 5/25/2021 Yokogawa and Shell have jointly developed Platform for Advanced Control and Estimation R5.03 and will release it on June 2 as a solution under the OpreX TM Asset Operations and Optimization family. Platform for Advanced Control and Estimation is a software suite that brings together Shell's advanced plant process control technology and Yokogawa's real-time control technology to help customers improve productivity by increasing product yield and reducing energy consumption. This version upgrade supports Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA)*, the latest version of a communication standard that improves plant systems interoperability and security, and provides the basis for digital transformation to help customers transition to industrial autonomy.