Plants in the process industry are often operated for decades and are constantly being converted, expanded and modernised in order to make processes more efficient. Digitalisation is now opening up completely new opportunities here. There is now a consensus that machines and systems need to communicate with each other.
Lukas Dökel, Head of Industry & Key Account Management Digital Plant at Wago, and Hans Otto Weinhold, Principal Solution Architect – Business Incubation at Aveva, report on where the industry currently stands with regard to digitalisation, how the automation & software architecture of the process industry is changing, especially with regard to PI systems – and how digitalisation is contributing to the major issue of sustainability that the industry must face up to.
