Users call for greater openness and flexibility
A confluence of user-driven initiatives towards openness, security, and interoperability are motivating change in automation system development. There is a need to significantly renew the technology. The control system of tomorrow will have a modular automation architecture that will evolve to address customer needs, becoming more open, interoperable and flexible, while maintaining the same high level of reliability, availability, safety and security to which users have grown accustomed.