Digital Transformation

Automation of a manufacturing facility involves the design and construction of a control system, requiring sensors, instruments, computers and the application of data processing. It is now widely recognized that automation of manufacturing processes is important, not only to improve product quality and workplace safety, but also to increase the efficiency of the process itself.

The technological advances over the last two decades have led to the availability of a wide variety of sensors, intelligent valves, programmable logic controllers (PLC) and central supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. These components are the building blocks of a control system, which when linked to a manufacturing process system, allows each function of that system into a process system, effectively reduces the labor involved in the operation of complex equipment and provides reliable, consistent performance.