DCS, SCADA, Controllers
Control Engineering hot topics, December 2022
Control Engineering's most clicked articles in December 2022 included stories on HMI/SCADA systems and solutions, MQTT, SI Giants and System Integrator of the Year winners and more. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Top 5 Control Engineering content: December 5-11, 2022
The most-viewed content from the past week covered HMI and SCADA systems, MQTT, SI Giants, real-time data and more.
Developing a sustainable SCADA solution for global agribusiness
A global agribusiness developed a sustainable supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for their company.
Integrating a DCS into an existing process cell
A distributed control system (DCS) needed to be installed in a process cell for a pharmaceutical company, but the process required an overhaul to the systems and standards in place to make it work.
HMI/SCADA systems: Upgrade your migration
When upgrading human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software, don’t just create a new version of the old. Enable workers with advanced HMI/SCADA capabilities after migration. See five tips for optimizing HMI/SCADA screens.
Modernizing SCADA vessel control systems with Ignition
Setting out to make better use of data and workflows in the remote, a maritime company adopts data-driven technology.
Top 10 modern SCADA system features
A modern supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system should be designed to help manufacturers take advantage of digital transformation and should run on modern technology.
Benefits of integrating a MES system with SCADA
Integrating supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems with manufacturing execution systems (MES) can help transfer usable information and utilize it to create future improvements.
From DCS to OCS: A change in process control system
Compared to a traditional distributed control system (DCS), an industrial optical bus control system (OCS) has a lower investment cost of automation, shorter installation time and reduces control system maintenance costs.
Four reasons why manufacturers should upgrade their SCADA systems
Engineers should take another look at their supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system to see how much more modern systems are able to help organizations achieve their Industry 4.0 goals.