Title :
Managing technology change in industrial automation: an ABB overview of research priorities
Author :
Sweet, Larry M. ; Rytoft, Claes
Author_Institution :
ABB Ind. & Building Syst. Segment, Stamford, CT, USA
Abstract :
Trends towards open systems, enterprise-wide business and plant automation, and field bus technology are transforming industrial automation, presenting major technical challenges to satisfy customer needs for increased productivity, reliability, and safety. Principal emphasis is placed on management of technological change and the explosion in information and complexity enabled by the new technology. ABB is addressing these needs in a broad range of applications, including process and automotive industries, power generation and transmission, building systems and transportation, built on a foundation of automation research as a core competence
Keywords :
electric power generation; factory automation; information technology; management of change; power transmission; process control; transportation; automotive industry; building systems; enterprise-wide business; field bus technology; industrial automation; power generation; process and automotive industries; technology change; transportation; Manufacturing automation; Power generation; Power transmission; Process control; Technological innovation; Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Control Applications, 1994., Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Glasgow
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1872-2
DOI :
10.1109/CCA.1994.381278
