• industrial control system (ICS) is an electronic control system and associated instrumentation used for industrial process control. Control systems can...
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    thermostat controlling a domestic boiler to large industrial control systems which are used for controlling processes or machines. The control systems are designed...
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  • Industrial process control (IPC) or simply process control is a system used in modern manufacturing which uses the principles of control theory and physical...
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    household thermostat controlling a boiler to a large industrial control system with tens of thousands of input measurements and output control signals. Automation...
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  • A distributed control system (DCS) is a computerized control system for a process or plant usually with many control loops, in which autonomous controllers...
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  • system Industrial control system Real-time control system (disambiguation), several meanings Kite control systems Lighting control system Fire-control system...
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  • A hierarchical control system (HCS) is a form of control system in which a set of devices and governing software is arranged in a hierarchical tree. When...
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  • interference with the proper operation of industrial automation and control systems. These control systems manage essential services including electricity...
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  • digital control systems are used to reliably automate many industrial operations such as power plants or automobiles. The complexity of these systems and...
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    Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) is a set of software tools and applications used to develop and implement distributed control systems to operate...
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    Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment...
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    control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls overlaps...
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  • monitoring and control, in various settings Industrial control systems such as SCADA, which implement control systems in industrial settings Control panel (software)...
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  • 61784/61158. A complex automated industrial system is typically structured in hierarchical levels as a distributed control system (DCS). In this hierarchy the...
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  • Stuxnet (category Malware targeting industrial control systems)
    control machinery and industrial processes including gas centrifuges for separating nuclear material. Exploiting four zero-day flaws in the systems,...
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  • against malicious cyber activity, including activity related to industrial control systems. In keeping with this responsibility, CISA continues responding...
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  • information security or protection of critical digital systems, such as industrial control systems, from inbound cyber attacks, to combinations of hardware...
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  • SCADA (an acronym for supervisory control and data acquisition) is a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and...
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  • A fuzzy control system is a control system based on fuzzy logic – a mathematical system that analyzes analog input values in terms of logical variables...
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  • A control loop is the fundamental building block of control systems in general and industrial control systems in particular. It consists of the process...
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    control theory, a setpoint (SP; also set point) is the desired or target value for an essential variable, or process value (PV) of a control system,...
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  • adjustment. It is typically used in industrial control systems and various other applications where constant control through modulation is necessary without...
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  • process to protect a telecommunications network, data center or industrial control system from undesirable acts by a malicious insider or inexperienced...
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    "Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and...
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  • systems, such as industrial control systems and process control generally. The OPC standards specify the communication of industrial process data, alarms...
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  • Operational technology (category Control engineering)
    differences between traditional information technology (IT) systems and industrial control systems (ICS) environment, the so-called "IT in the non-carpeted...
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    commercial, industrial, and residential spaces. Lighting control systems are sometimes referred to under the term smart lighting. Lighting control systems serve...
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  • Instrumentation (category Control engineering)
    direct-reading thermometers, or as complex as multi-sensor components of industrial control systems. Instruments can be found in laboratories, refineries, factories...
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    (PLC) or programmable controller is an industrial computer that has been ruggedized and adapted for the control of manufacturing processes, such as assembly...
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  • "Three decades of DCS technology". Control Global. Retrieved 27 November 2018. "Evolution of industrial control systems". PACE. 4 December 2013. Retrieved...
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