The magazine for industrial automation. Process/Factory Automation news and information
The term ‘information technology’ came about in the 1970s. IT in manufacturing: Everything changes…Industrial distributed control systems (DCS) and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are totally different from office hardware. But in many large companies, internal politics helped IT take over, with a monopoly on all computer activity, often as a forced internal vendor. As a result, policies became firm and inflexible with few feedback loops for development.
‘Infotech future’ the cover story of Jim Pinto in current issue, he had focused the fundamental of IT industry, Information technology (IT) has been a dominating influence in many large manufacturing and process automation companies dating back to the 1970s, the age of mainframes in control rooms. Mr. Jim Pinto’s underlines now India has already developed noteworthy talent in this domain and has the opportunity to generate world leadership.
