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SCADA’s role in Industry 4.0, manufacturing applications

Control Engineering

They are no longer just monitoring tools but are shaping the future of smart factories, thanks to open system architecture and the ability to integrate data from IT and OT sources. goals, modern SCADA systems must provide advanced functionalities and flexible data access for informed decision-making. To achieve Industry 4.0

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7 ways SCADA software can advance IIoT implementations, if you do it right

Control Engineering

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software was initially designed to aggregate information from distributed sources and provide operators with the information needed to best control processes. SCADA connections to MES and other areas 3.