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As new open process automation systems are developed and commercialized, manufacturing companies, automation suppliers, and engineering contractors face both the opportunity and challenge of developing new approaches to automation projects. Advances in automation technologies create new opportunities for all stakeholders to lower both the replacement and ongoing lifecycle costs for their control systems and derive more value from automation investments.
To date, however, only a small minority of these benefits have been realized due to a hesitancy to try something new, invest in new technology, or change existing business practices. Too many automation stakeholders are trapped in the mode of doing things the same way they have always done them. This reluctance to change minimizes the value of automation investments and prevents manufacturers from realizing opportunities to drive inefficiencies out of their plants/processes and taking their operations to the next level of performance.
At the recent ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, this theme was evident in the New Approaches to Automation Projects session. The session examined how emerging automation technologies and new approaches to project management now make it possible to significantly reduce overall project cost for everyone involved. The presentations centered around how smart, configurable I/O, virtualization, modular approaches, and main automation contractor (MAC) approaches offer the potential to reduce project costs by as much as 30 percent if everyone involved approaches the project with an open mind and appropriate new technologies/business processes are implemented correctly.
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Keywords: ARC Industry Forum, Open Process Automation, Main Automation Con-tractor (MAC), NAMUR, Human Machine Interface (HMI), ARC Advisory Group.