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Schneider Electric has unveiled its EcoStruxure Foxboro Software Defined Automation platform, described as the industry's first open, software-defined distributed control system. The platform decouples hardware from software to deliver vendor independence, interoperability and flexible architectures while maintaining IEC 62443-3-3 cybersecurity compliance and enabling IT/OT convergence, AI/ML integration and autonomous operations for Industry 4.0.
Virtualisation decouples control systems from hardware obsolescenceProcess plants are virtualising DCS environments to escape the hardware refresh cycle driven by ageing servers and unsupported operating systems. By hosting engineering workstations, HMIs, historians and application servers as virtual machines, operators can migrate workloads between hosts without downtime, enabling live maintenance and shifting lifecycle management from hardware-driven to software-driven planning.
AI adoption scales in industrial operations despite infrastructure gapsCisco Research reports that 61% of organisations are using AI in live industrial operations, with 20% having scaled, mature deployments delivering measurable benefits in process automation, quality inspection, predictive maintenance and energy forecasting. However, readiness gaps persist in networking infrastructure, cybersecurity and IT/OT collaboration, with 40% citing cybersecurity as the biggest obstacle to scaling AI.
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By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric As sayings go, there are few as apt as “the sum of its parts”. And it certainly holds at its truest when it...
By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric Today’s control rooms are evolving; slowly but surely, we’re seeing the dense landscape of humming...
The Liquiphant has been installed more than eight million times worldwide. Developed as a new measuring principle for customer challenges in the 1980s, it is considered the most reliable and safe...
AI is delivering measurable operational benefits in use cases such as process automation, automated quality inspection, predictive maintenance, logistics and energy forecasting, the 'State of...
By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric Process industries today are walking a tightrope of sorts, modernising ageing distributed control systems...
By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric As process industries hurtle toward an AI-driven future, four powerful trends are set to redefine automation...
Global energy technology company Schneider Electric has unveiled its EcoStruxure Foxboro software defined automation (SDA) platform, said to be the industry’s first open, software‑defined...
Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, today announced EcoStruxure™ Foxboro Software Defined Automation (SDA), the industry’s first open, software‑defined Distributed Control System...
RMB Corvest and Shalamuka Capital have acquired a minority stake in Process Automation (Pty) Ltd (“Process Automation”) partnering with CEO Larry Smith, who retains his majority shareholding. The...
By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric Industrial safety systems have certainly come a long way since the days of hardwired emergency shutdowns. What...
By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric One only has to briefly page through the annals of our industrial history, to come across truly hair-raising...
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