In industrial automation, much of the focus tends to be on the distributed control system (DCS). However, an equally important system exists—the safety instrumented system (SIS). The SIS does exactly what its name implies: keep plant personnel and assets safe. It is a...
DeltaV DCS
Software-Defined Control: How Modern Compute and Virtualization Are Rewiring Plant Performance
Why this matters now As explored in his recent article in Control Engineering, Emerson’s Claudio Fayad—drawing on more than 30 years of industry expertise—explains that software-defined control addresses the limits of embedded, hardware-centric designs without forcing...
How Industrial Companies Can Modernize with AI Without Costly Rip‑and‑Replace Strategies
The Challenge There is no question that in the face of global competition, workforce shortages, and constantly shifting demand, industrial companies are under more pressure than ever to deliver more efficient, optimized operations across their enterprises. For years,...
AI Lives on the Edge
We have talked a lot in this space about the importance of a boundless automation vision for successfully deploying AI into the OT space. After all, AI needs loads of data, and if that data is trapped in silos, it can’t get to the data lakes, analytics applications,...
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