A distributed control system (DCS) centralizes plant operations to provide flexibility and simplicity by allowing central control, monitoring and reporting of individual components and processes.

ABB has announced the launch of its Symphony Plus distributed control system (DCS). Key customer benefits include improved plant productivity and energy efficiency, as well as enhanced operational ...

Ten years ago at the 1998 ISA Power Industry Division symposium, several papers were presented that reviewed then-state-of-the-art developments in distributed control systems (DCS) technology.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the global distributed control systems (DCS) market in the oil and gas industry since 2014, and the market is poised to grow by USD 550.82 ...

Distributed control systems (DCSs) are commonplace in continuous processing, particularly in the oil and gas and chemical industries where they’re used to control several machines or processes at the ...

Distributed Control Systems (DCS) have been around for nearly half a century. Of course, both industrial processes and the control systems that help to manage them have changed a lot since the ...

Distributed control system (DCS) — Earlier designs of this automation platform were less scalable, but newer models make up for it by being less expensive to maintain. Human machine interface (HMI) — ...

Rethink What You Should Expect From Your Distributed Control System. Today, process industry professionals face difficult challenges. How can we adhere to increasingly tighter compliance requirements ...

2. Special Local Control. Any local control scheme not implemented in a MMR’s firmware can be accomplished with the logic engine, which often requires some additional digital inputs.