Though the presumption is that physical separation is needed between control and safety systems to avoid common cause failures, “effective” separation may be enough with proper analysis and the right ...

The control systems world is changing. Historically, process control systems—which include all industrial control, process control, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), distributed ...

Integrated data and cloud-based solutions can be used for process optimization. In the past, process control data were used simply to control the process. With the explosion of data collection and ...