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EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS - distributed control system

EcoStruxureâ„¢ Foxboroâ„¢ DCS is an innovative family of fault-tolerant, highly available control components, which consolidates critical information and elevates staff capabilities to ensure flawless, continuous plant operation, and support the digital transformation of processes.

What is a distributed control system (DCS)?

A distributed control system (DCS) is the brain controlling the processes in energy-intensive, process-heavy facilities. This digital automated industrial control system achieves this by using geographically distributed control loops throughout a plant or machine. A modern distributed control system will increase safety and efficiency and is vital in making operations profitable in the coming decades.

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Features

  • Packed with state-of-the-art OT technologies like dynamic SAMA, engineer anywhere and control anywhere capabilities, visualization and situation-awareness functionalities, and the latest IT technologies in mobility, cloud and analytics.
  • Architecturally optimized for smart design and flexible engineering reducing capital and operating expenses, protecting operational integrity while enhancing decision-making, problem resolution, and workflow.
  • Provides a powerful platform to turn your industrial automation into a universal automation of your business, driving measurable operational profitability safely.

When coupled with open, IEC 61499 standards-based solutions, like EcoStruxure Automation Expert and our other offers, the Foxboro DCS provides customers with even more choice and flexibility, so they can:

  • Leverage and adopt advancements in technology and hardware much faster, and not the 18 months to two years it takes in the current model.
  • Adopt technology that IT has been leveraging for years.
  • And more quickly address emerging and new critical challenges.

Benefits

63% of current control systems are only somewhat equipped to support their company’s digital transformation. We commissioned Omdia to survey 250 global business leaders to capture essential perspectives and specific challenges they face on their journey toward digital transformation.

EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS technology platforms

The Foxboro DCS family of fault-tolerant, highly available components collect, process, and disseminates valuable information to every corner of the plant. With flexibility and scalability in mind, the Foxboro DCS offers multiple types of controllers and I/O options to optimize cost, space and functionality requirements.

Explore the latest insights on DCS

  • 2023 Innovation Days – reimagining automation for Foxboro DCS

  • 2023 Innovation Days – process control highlights

  • Digital transformation in the automation world

  • Futureproofing DCS technology

  • Solutions to aging DCS

See what our customers achieved with Foxboro DCS

  • Integrated control and safety systems (ICSS) implementation

  • DCS upgrade

  • DCS implementation

Process automation learning services

Explore our digital and in-person courses, specially designed to ensure the technical skills of your automation workforce are future-ready. Or request a custom learning solution to address your unique training needs.
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DCS migration and upgrade

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