At a growing rate, automation and control professionals are finding new ways to use edge-oriented control architectures to enhance complex control systems. Increasingly, industrial controllers provide new options for industrial control systems that combine the best features of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and industrial PCs (IPCs). Advances in web-based supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems continue to transform the process of installing, configuring and managing automation and control systems to enhance manufacturing performance. InTech magazine is the official publication of ISA—The International Society of Automation. It is published six times per year.
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