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Seven Levels of Automation - Integrated Enterprise Solutions Area

Levels 6 & 7 - Overall Enterprise Solutions/Systems

  • Financial
  • Overall Sales & Marketing
  • Strategic Planning
  • Overll Supply Chain and Production Distribution

Level 5 - Enterprise and Production Systems

  • Sales & Marketing
  • Quality Management
  • Simulation Application
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Production Distribution
  • Production Management
  • Process Optimization

Standard Application Interfaces

Production Enterprise Systems

Level 4 - Sitewide Systems

  • Plantwide Systems
  • Data Reconciliation
  • Lab/Information Management
  • Advanced Control
  • Operations Data & Logging
  • Process & Event Historian

Application Interfaces

Control Systems

Levels 2 & 3 - Distributed Control Systems

Level 1 - Control Devices, Analyzers, Controllers

Control System Engineering

Level 0 - Flows, Pressure, Temp., Data Acquisition

The Levels of Automation in Automation Systems

 

 
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