The editorial discusses how expanding digitalization is pushing process industries beyond traditional “automated” operations—built on DCSs and PLCs—toward more autonomous plants, outlining the potential performance gains as well as challenges around data, cybersecurity, and workforce skills during the transition.
Editor’s page: From ‘automated’ to ‘autonomous’
The continued and expanding use of digitalization technologies in the process industries have pushed facility operations from “automated” — featuring distributed control systems, programmable logic
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