Process control and industrial automation to merge
Wednesday, 09 February, 2005
According to GE Fanuc's European head, Marcel van Helten, process control and industrial automation will become one entity in the not-so-distant future.
According to van Helten, the PLC will be the first piece of equipment to get a 'makeover' by morphing into a programmable automation controller that will contain the elements of a SCADA front, the function of a traditional PLC but with enough power to control motors directly and an ethernet connection to allow enterprise-wide integration.
This latest prediction by van Helten echoes similar comments that have been made recently by a number of companies including Rockwell Automation.
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