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Asia-Pacific is expected to be the largest DCS market and is expected to have the highest growth during the coming 10 years. This is one of the estimations that is reported in the a new...

Distributed Control Systems, also known as DCS, can be in use for about 20-30 years. This means that many plants are running on obsolete and unsupported systems. During the 80's and 90's many plants implemented control...

Yokogawa, founded in 1915, is a Japanese company specialized in electrical engineering and software. With more than 19.000 employees, 84 offices located all around the world in 55 countries, Yokogawa is a big player in...

Five reasons to upgrade/migrate an obsolete DCS sooner rather than later!

Starting now, we allow article submissions to be published on DCS-news. We want to give anyone that is interested the opportunity to share their thoughts on any recent DCS-related topics. This can be in...

When an old DCS has grown obsolete it needs to be replaced for a new DCS. Some plants require a DCS migration during online process conditions, due to a continuous production process. This requires...

Siemens AG is a German multinational company that focuses on 3 main sectors: industry, energy and health care. The company has around 360.000 employees and has clients in more than 190 countries. Siemens DCS Siemens designed...

Rockwell Automation, founded in 1903, is the world's largest company in the field of industrial automation and information. Rockwell has about 22,000 employees globally and serves customers in more than 80 countries worldwide. Their...

In collaboration with Istec International B.V. we have created a Whitepaper about Hot Cutover DCS Migrations. There is also a case-study included which describes a hot cutover of an obsolete non-Yokogawa Distributed Control System to a...