At least two DCs have sent proposals to the cabinet division ahead of the Deputy Commissioners' (DC) Conference today seeking full control over superintendents of police (SP) and officers-in-charge ...

A typical Distributed Control System (DCS) consists of functionally and/or spatially distributed digital controllers capable of executing from one to 256 or more regulatory control loops in one ...

This approach separates two questions that a like-for-like migration combines: What can the new platform support, and what ...

Implementing a new distributed control system is one of the biggest and most complicated projects in a process control engineer’s career. Doing one successfully requires everything from a well-defined ...

Distributed control systems are powerful assets for new and modernized power plants. Thanks to three product generations of technology innovations, these systems now provide new benefits — including ...

Over the past decade, the functionality of different control systems has been merging. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) now have capabilities once found only in distributed control systems (DCSs) ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is based on a technical paper recently presented at POWER-GEN International 2017 in Orlando, Florida. A microgrid can be defined as a group of interconnected loads ...

“The same system used on a skid can be integrated to control the entire plant.” Jim Winter of Rockwell Automation explained why the company’s PlantPAx DCS offers unprecedented scalability for process ...

What is a distributed control system (DCS)? A distributed control system (DCS) is a digital automated industrial control system (ICS) that uses geographically distributed control loops throughout a ...