Does DCS Have A Future?

Dec. 9, 2008
If so, is it HMI/SCADA?

What’s a distributed control system? We asked end users, systems integrators and vendors and got answers ranging from “a control system with two PLCs connected by a network,” to “DCS doesn’t exist anymore. Modern systems are (insert DCS vendor’s euphemism here).”

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