1) The integration process needs to be reliable and shareable with all other plants to standardize the process for ease of maintenance; 2) the integration plan should be flexible for adaptability to ...

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 ...

4. Time-of-Day Control. Many MMRs provide a real-time clock (RTC) option for time stamping faults. This information can also be used for time-of-day and day-of-week control.