I have heard about the promise of "open" control systems for many years now. During the "I'm more open than you are" advertising wars of the early '90s, many benefits were touted. These..
I have heard about the promise of "open" control
systems for many years now. During the "I'm more open than
you are" advertising wars of the early '90s, many benefits
were touted. These included lower costs, high flexibility and
the choice of "best-in-class" products from different
vendors. The promise was a complete integrated control system
with equipment from different vendors optimized for
particular jobs. This equipment would simply plug and play
together to reduce integration cost and save project
time.
Over the years, control equipment vendors actually
began to deliver on some of those promises. I have seen human
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