DCS, SCADA, Controllers
Intelligent alarms create actions from noise
Inside process: Alarm management software can decipher raw data, identify critical alarms, locate alarm sources, and provide role-based intelligence for faster resolution.
Profit-driven operations require IT/OT integration
Maximizing process plant profits requires close integration across all levels of an organization.
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.
Predicting the end of unplanned downtime
Any unscheduled downtime will cause a major headache for engineers in the food and beverage manufacturing sector, but predictive maintenance can be a remedy.
Control Engineering 2020
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), process and machine control systems, automation and instrumentation are among the topics Control Engineering will advance in 2020, a year that suggests perfect vision and hindsight, as we mark 65 years in September 2019.
Using web browsers for HMI, SCADA applications
New capabilities in mobile-responsive design make human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) applications more valuable on the plant floor.
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.
Leverage SCADA data in maintenance workflows
Know what you need before investing in IIoT.
Industrial controller cybersecurity best practices
Protecting industrial automation systems is easier when controllers offer built-in cybersecurity features.
Control system connectivity update
Digitalization, IIoT and Industry 4.0 implementations need communication hubs, a role well-suited to PLCs and HMIs.