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The contract calls for upgrading all of Malaysia Liquefied Natural Gas' existing distributed control systems to newer Foxboro I/A Series CP270 models.

White paper discusses the use of Yokogawa’s CENTUM VP distributed control system (DCS) to meet the requirements of the Food and Drug Administration’s 21 CFR § 11.

DCS manufacturers will have to be wary of competition from SCADA systems, which use PC-based software to integrate programmable logic controllers (PLCs) on a network to replicate the functions of DCS.

The economic downturn has impacted the market growth but there are increasing signs of recovery, starting this year, according to ARC.

I recently visited Siemens Energy’s Instrumentation, Controls, and Electrical group to learn more about the SPPA-T3000 system and how customers are using it.

ABB will supply a complete distributed control system (DCS) solution for a new 427-megawatt, gas-fired thermal power plant.

Eight Rosemount wireless temperature transmitters continuously check batch temperatures, sending that real-time data to a Smart Wireless Gateway integrated with the plant’s DeltaV digital automation system.

The robotic welding solution for steel fabrication combines hardware and software for production of Waiward’s high volume of ‘one off’ and small batch parts.

The ARC study reports that the explosive growth that characterized the DCS (distributed control system) market up until 2008 is gone due to the global economic crisis.

While 2009 and 2010 look to be challenging years, the opportunity to drive growth in services remains substantial and will continue to drive growth in the overall DCS market well into the next decade.

The initial batch of 16 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-recognized interoperability standards will help ensure that software and hardware components from different vendors will work together.

Invensys Process Systems integrated Pepperl+Fuchs intrinsically safe I/O interface product lines with I/A Series DCSes.

PlantPAx process automation system manages more than 100 batch and continuous process phases. System includes HMI software, instrumentation and wireless equipment.

Shire Human Genetic Therapies will use Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), Experion Batch Manager, wireless network and Uniformance Process Historian Database.

By Carl Hosier, Honeywell Process Solutions Many manufacturing facilities have taken to integrating plant subsystems with their DCS to maximize productivity and improve overall efficiency. Applying this same concept to power generation could help electricity and steam generators streamline production in a way that makes sense to both their pocketbooks and the regulators.

IPS will upgrade control processors, gateways, local area networks and network security with its Foxboro I/A Series distributed control system Version 8, including mesh architecture.

The DCS market in Latin America will grow at an annual rate of close to 10% through 2012, reaching a total size of almost $1.5 billion.

Managed by the United States Department of Energy (DOE), the PDCF facility will convert weapons grade plutonium and uranium into fuel rods to be used for electrical power generation.

ARC expects there to be continued growth in the India DCS market through 2012, with overall growth of just under 15.2%.