Top 5 Control Engineering articles November 18-24
Articles about the Engineers' Choice finalists, control system technologies, control system migration, industrial automation, and information and the cloud were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from November 18-24. Miss something? You can catch up here.
The top 5 most read articles online, from November 18-24 for Control Engineering covered the Engineers’ Choice finalists, control system technologies, control system migration, industrial automation, and information and the cloud. Links to each article below.
1. 2020 Engineers’ Choice Finalists
The official ballot is open for voting for Control Engineering North American print and digital edition subscribers, for a limited time. Cast your vote using CFE Media’s New Products for Engineers platform at www.controleng.com/NPE.
2. Shift in control system technologies, design
Project execution using a process control system highly integrated virtual environment melds software and networking to uncouple control applications from physical equipment, and controllers from physical I/O. This reduces capital cost by shifting from customization to standardization and eliminating some non-value-added work.
3. Opening your options: Control system migration
Inside Process: Aging process control systems (PCSs) create nine major problems. There are three good reasons to migrate distributed control systems before obsolescence.
4. Future of industrial automation: discern the possibilities, potential
Industrial automation is on the threshold of a new revolution, moving through rapid technology changes, adoption of new systems and networking architectures and looking toward interoperability of devices and systems.
5. How information ascends to the cloud for greater utilization
Modern instrumentation delivers data, but too often it serves no purpose.
The list was developed using CFE Media’s web analytics for stories viewed on controleng.com, Nov. 18-24, for articles published within the last two months.
Chris Vavra, production editor, CFE Media, cvavra@cfemedia.com.
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