The newly announced PlantPAx® 5.0 DCS, the flagship system from Rockwell Automation, uses a plant-wide approach that scales from skids to large operations and provides actionable information for data-driven decision making across your enterprise. Learn how this modern approach to a DCS with the addition of new workflows, controllers, and availability features helps streamline projects and reduce engineering efforts.
Top 3 Industry Drivers:
• Investments to increase organic growth and reduce costs
• Focus on productivity savings (Plant rationalizations, future plant design)
• Digitization is impacting consumer behaviors and creating new integration challenges
• Increased regulations as governments act to improve food safety
• Speed to market from idea to launch placing greater demands for automation
Key Takeaways:
• State-of-the-art process controllers that improve scalability and skid integration as well as provide a simplified, low-cost architecture due to higher controller performance
• Embedded native process objects helps reduce engineering costs and drive consistency in projects
• New cybersecurity capabilities and system certifications help ensure safer and more secure operations