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In the previous chapter we noted that a distributed approach to the design of a process control environment may provide a route to increased reconfigurability and with that the associated business benefits. In this overview chapter and the following three chapters we begin to build up a blueprint for how such a distributed control system might be constructed. We have already noted that such an approach is — conceptually — fundamentally different to conventional, hierarchically-based control systems and because of this we begin with a recasting of the process control system structure before moving on to examine the way such a system might operate.
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(2008). DRPC: Distributed Reconfigurable Process Control. In: A Distributed Coordination Approach to Reconfigurable Process Control. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-060-5_3
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