Five Critical Factors in Industrial Control System Integration

Ali Awais Amin Control system integration is fundamental to industrial automation. Automation professionals with even a rudimentary knowledge of system integration realize and understand that isolation is coming to an end. In fact, control system integrators provide maximum value to the client by designing the system called for by the project parameters rather than having to tailor a particular proprietary system according to the specific requirements. There are five factors involved in integrating different control systems: Software infrastructure Process databases   Operator interface Alarm management Network security. Each...