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Upgrading Control: Migration or Evolution?(Company overview)
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Control Engineering
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September 1, 2008
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Peter Welander, Control Engineering
When a process control platform needs upgrading, the answer can be an incremental change, a system-wide rip and replace, or anything in between. Users have more options than ever.
At a recent automation supplier user group, a speaker cited an interesting statistic. He said that 50% of the DCS (distributed control system) platforms running process plants today are at least 20 years old. Knowing that, it isn't hard to understand why control system upgrades are on many peoples' minds as companies face growing cost and competitive pressures.
Should you be looking at replacing your control system simply because it's in the half ...