WHAT DOES THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCADA HAVE TO OFFER MANUFACTURERS?

摘要

Thirty years ago industry pundits were predicting the death of SCADA as a technology, saying it would have no place in the plants and factories of the future. But, contrary to this, the technology has constantly evolved in line with user requirements, and indeed continues to evolve. Paul Hurst, MD, Products4Automation (P4A) vendor of the Movicon SCADA Suite, explains what the next generation of SCADA will bring to the party Despite all the talk of 'lights out factories', there will always be a need for people to interact with machines and processes, to visualise operations and respond to performance indicators. Currently this usually happens locally, but there is a trend towards more and more remote access. Going forward, remote operation may become the norm.