HistoryofControl HistoryofPLCandDCS （HistoryofControl HistoryofPLCandDCS ）.pdf

History of Control History of PLC and DCS Vanessa Romero Segovia and Alfred Theorin 2012-06-15 (minor revision 2013-07-26) 1 Introduction The way many industrial processes look today, is the result of many years of research and hard work of people commited to improve their functionality, man- agement, and organization. One could recall the phrase ”necessity is the mother of invention”, and certainly this would fit the everyday work of control engineers and technicians working in industrial processes during the 50’s and 60’s. This necessity