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information, plant design, and/or financial information systems. For organizations struggling with how to do more with less, these examples illustrate a few of the ways in which automation solutions can deliver significant operational savings while also helping to ensure cleaner, safer water supplies and reduce envi- ronmental hazards. And because the technology is scalable, these benefits can be achieved by orga- nizations large or small.
Unified plant controls and remote SCADA systems go far beyond the basic definition of process control. At the plant level, tighter overall control and process visibility made possible by an integrated control architecture can translate into improved management of treatment processes. (image courtesy of Emerson)
A small borough in Pennsylvania is indicative of how even small municipalities can benefit from replacing separate, older controls with a unified automation plat- form. Ridgway installed a new control system that monitors and controls its water treatment and five-bay filtration processes. The
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