Digital control rooms: are they what operators need?

The control room's migration from analog panel boards to distributed control systems (DCS) solved many problems and created some new ones.  Was it worth the effort?  The transition to all-digital control rooms is discussed with an eye towards some technologies that are looming on the horizon.

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Robert W Szoke, Ashland Petroleum Company

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Appears in:
1998 / Q1

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Topic:
Automation, Control, Instrumentation and Simulation

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