From Automation to Intelligence: ARC’s Next Industrial Technology Chapter

In 1986, industrial technology looked very different. Factories were becoming more automated, but they were still dominated by specialized systems built to control specific machines and processes. Distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, drives, instrumentation, and plant-floor computing were changing what manufacturers could see and manage, but many of those technologies still lived in relatively isolated worlds. The plant floor had its systems, the enterprise had others, an