Your legacy DCS vs a new automation system — compare TCO

Supplied by Rockwell Automation on Thursday, 11 February, 2021

As your distributed control systems (DCS) reaches the end of its useful life, conversion to a new automation system is required. Before this happens, internal plant personnel must provide both technical and financial justification to their management and often to their corporate offices.

Learn how to compare the collective costs of continued operation with the existing DCS with the costs and technical benefits of converting to a modern automation system.

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