SCADA stands for “supervisory control and data acquisition,” a mouthful even for more experienced industry professionals, so let’s break down how they work.
SCADA Systems utilize computers, networked data communications, and interfaces to provide users with extremely accurate supervisory management capabilities.
By incorporating specialized devices such as programmable logic and discrete PID controllers, your SCADA system enables you to interface with key machinery or the entire process plant.
This technology enables:
- The monitoring and issuing of process commands
- Performing controller set-point changes
- Access to a variety of local control modules remotely
- Maintaining standard automation protocols with different manufacturers
Such processes can be executed and entered remotely. However, real-time calculations or logic troubleshooting is performed by modules connected to field sensors and actuators within your network.
Although more complex SCADA systems resemble distributed control systems in a functional sense, they offer a greater variety of ways to interface with your plant. The technology also enables strict, large-scale control over multiple sites and an extensive range of distances.
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