Management and process control: a permanently open loop? - Process control engineers need to raise their visibility in the plants where they work

摘要

Hardly any function in a manufacturing plant receives as little attention from management as process control. Operations and even sometimes engineering or services managers hardly know what the instrumentation and control folks are busy with and why - except when they come and ask for large sums of money, e.g. for replacing their DCS. In particular, plant leaders are not aware what the contribution of automatic control to the economical success of the plant can be and actually is.