If you can’t describe it you can’t control it.  And control is what its all about.  So we need to get better at describing what it is that our control system projects are going to do. This has some serious implications. First, if the programming language is not well suited to the task this will […]

The recent trend from control systems vendors is the use of the term “architecture”.  This trend has become so pervasive that one major vendor changed the titles of it’s sales reps to “System Architects”.  That shift says a lot about the importance of control system architecture. Architecture is used when talking about the the design […]