TY - JOUR
T1 - System architecture for process automation
T2 - Review and trends
AU - Samad, Tariq
AU - McLaughlin, Paul
AU - Lu, Joseph
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - New developments in information technologies are radically transforming process automation. Their impact and benefit derive both from these technologies individually and from their convergence in new system architecture concepts. This paper reviews how process automation system architectures have evolved and discusses future trends. We draw an analogy between the synergistic new technologies being developed today and the technology landscape of the early 1970s-characterized by the near-simultaneous appearance of microprocessors, communication networks, CRT displays-that resulted in the first DCS systems (in particular, the Honeywell TDC2000). Emerging technologies highlighted include wireless, embedded devices, service-oriented architecture, and application infrastructures.
AB - New developments in information technologies are radically transforming process automation. Their impact and benefit derive both from these technologies individually and from their convergence in new system architecture concepts. This paper reviews how process automation system architectures have evolved and discusses future trends. We draw an analogy between the synergistic new technologies being developed today and the technology landscape of the early 1970s-characterized by the near-simultaneous appearance of microprocessors, communication networks, CRT displays-that resulted in the first DCS systems (in particular, the Honeywell TDC2000). Emerging technologies highlighted include wireless, embedded devices, service-oriented architecture, and application infrastructures.
KW - Communication networks
KW - Control system architecture
KW - Distributed control systems (DCSs)
KW - Information technology
KW - Process automation
KW - Process control
KW - Systems engineering
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jprocont.2006.10.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jprocont.2006.10.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33846807292
SN - 0959-1524
VL - 17
SP - 191
EP - 201
JO - Journal of Process Control
JF - Journal of Process Control
IS - 3
ER -
