What's Your Legacy? - Maximize existing asset value and migrate in a stepwise, incremental fashion

摘要

Migration is an important topic in today's industrial marketplace as users confront the life cycle management of their installed control systems. Sixty-five billion dollars of legacy process-control systems have reached the end of their reasonable life cycle. The process automation industry has undergone massive consolidation of both end users and suppliers and has seen significant changes in the life span for distributed control systems (DCS) components spurred by rapidly changing technology.