
Distributed control system
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Search complete. 4 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Distributed control system".
Oct 16, 2026
From process safety metrics to predictive risk management
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11:41Edgardo MorenoGUEST
The challenge is that this information is scattered across different systems.
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11:46Edgardo MorenoGUEST
You have process historians, DCS, distributed control systems, SCADA systems, maintenance, inspection databases, incident management platforms, engineering information systems, alarm management tools.
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12:04Edgardo MorenoGUEST
And rather than reviewing these KPIs separately once a month in a spreadsheet, Organizations can monitor them continuously, and this allows leaders to identify these trends much earlier.
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12:18Edgardo MorenoGUEST
They can detect deteriorating conditions before they become incidents.
Rob McGreevy with AVEVA
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15:28Scott MackenzieHOST
It's like, ah.
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15:29Scott MackenzieHOST
By the way, the term is PLC and DCS.
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15:32Scott MackenzieHOST
I couldn't remember that to save my doggone life.
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15:34Rob McGreevyGUEST
That's right.
6 MINS LATER
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21:56Scott MackenzieHOST
Yeah.
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21:57Rob McGreevyGUEST
You know, if today's fashionable model happens to be OpenAI, uh, but tomorrow it's, you know, XYZ company, we make it so you can plug in those different LLMs in, in that case.
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22:07Rob McGreevyGUEST
Uh, the protocols of those PLCs and DCSs you were talking about earlier, those things keep changing.
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22:13Rob McGreevyGUEST
They get more secure, they get more reliable, but they change.
Preserving Manufacturing Expertise in Adhesives and Sealants Production
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3:17Kence AndersonGUEST
And then you can export those agents and you can connect them directly to the plant floor.
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3:21Kence AndersonGUEST
You connect them to the PLC, you connect them to the HMI and the DCS systems.
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3:26Kence AndersonGUEST
And so you started with data.
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3:29Kence AndersonGUEST
Yes, you did create quite a few things along the way, and there was a process there, but you ended up with a team of autonomous agents that can advise operators, that can perform closed-loop control on their own, and that can even improve the operation beyond what it's ever been before.