In the last couple of years, software-defined control has rapidly gained a lot of attention in the marketplace. That’s no surprise. It’s set to upend the way we see and use automation in the years ahead. In a recent interview in Control Design, Emerson’s Sean Saul...
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Simplify, Scale, Succeed with Software-Defined Control
Control technologies have changed greatly over the years. Many of today’s modern industrial controllers would be almost unrecognizable when set side-by-side with controllers from decades ago. A key contributor to this shift has been digitalization. Digital...
Empower Your Enterprise with Edge Tech and Performance Platforms
As today’s lean process manufacturing teams look for ways to make the most of their limited resources, many are trying to find a way to limit the impact of having their most expert people spread thin across plants that may be many miles—or even continents—apart. Often...
Delivering on the Promise of Industry 4.0
We finally got our wish. Industry 4.0 delivered a wide array of new technologies—sensors, edge devices, mobile devices, and more—that now collect, and sometimes deliver, massive amounts of data from every asset imaginable. However, that leaves a lot of organizations...
Software-Defined Control Unlocks a Future of Flexibility
It seems as if the challenges facing process manufacturers have changed nearly overnight, with many operations teams now facing entirely different goals than just five short years ago. These new goals—increased sustainability, reduced energy use, optimal...
DeltaV Distributed Control System Looking Forward
Emerson’s Sean Saul and Sesh Natarajan provided a roadmap for the DeltaV distributed control system at the 2023 Emerson Exchange Immerse conference.
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