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What is the difference between Scada and dcs?

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Question added by Nasurullah Khan
Date Posted: 2016/05/03
Nasir Khan
by Nasir Khan , Instrumentation Engineer/ Site Supervision Engineer , Associated Consulting Engineers-ACE (Pvt.) Ltd.

1. DCS is process oriented while SCADA is data oriented.

2. DCS concentrates on Control Processes and present the data to user/ operator while SCADA concentrates on requirements of Control Unit.

3. SCADA maintains a database while DCS is always connected to its data source, hence no need of database.

4. DCS has a closed-loop Control system at PCS/RTU level while SCADA does not have it.

> Most DCS and SCADA systems today come with same standard facilities like events, archiving, HMI, reporting, DB management & logging as well as remote Control centers.

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