A distributed control system (DCS) centralizes plant operations to provide flexibility and simplicity by allowing central control, monitoring and reporting of individual components and processes.

Pneumatic systems are not upgradable to become compatible with smart electronics Despite these disadvantages, however, modern machines still use pneumatics because it is reliable.

However, Control Design highlights a critical consideration for automation engineers: While IPCs offer significant flexibility and advanced features, they are fundamentally PCs with operating systems ...

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Pharma manufacturing spends up to $40M per year on QC, there are clear advantaged of automating biopharma quality control, including cost and quality.