PLC / SCADA

As foundational pillars in industrial automation, PLCs and SCADA systems initiated a profound transformation in the manufacturing and process control worlds upon their development in the 1970s. They single-handedly democratized digital, real-time control by migrating the technology from complex, hard-wired relay logic and physical control panels to much more accessible, software-programmed controllers and graphical interfaces on computers. This pivotal shift dismantled previous barriers of operational inflexibility and data opacity, placing powerful, plant-wide automation tools into the hands of countless engineers and operators globally.