It may surprise you to know that PLC, HMI and SCADA implementations today are consistently proving more expensive than DCS for the same process or batch application.
DCS and PLC/SCADA – a comparison in use (from Control Engineering magazine)
DCS and PLC/SCADA – a comparison in use
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