Distributed Control Systems

As a foundational pillar in industrial automation, Distributed Control Systems (DCS) initiated a profound transformation in the process manufacturing and power generation worlds upon their development in the 1970s. They single-handedly democratized large-scale process automation by migrating the technology from centralized mainframe computers and discrete analog controllers to a much more accessible, fault-tolerant distributed architecture. This pivotal shift dismantled previous reliability and scalability barriers, placing powerful, plant-wide control tools into the hands of countless process engineers globally.