A DCS (Distributed Control System) is designed for large, continuously running process plants: control is distributed across many controllers and managed from a single engineering environment.
A DCS (Distributed Control System) is designed for large, continuously running process plants: control is distributed across many controllers and managed from a single engineering environment. Redundancy, alarm management and asset management are built in.
Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 is one of the most widely used DCS platforms.