If you haven’t already installed a virtual process control system, the chances are that you will soon. Virtualization, particularly platform virtualization, has swept through process control at a speed that would have been difficult to believe a few years ago. But are these systems as safe and effective as they could be?
While I was attending the ISA Cybersecurity Conference last month in Detroit it occurred to me that cyber and other process control trends can overlap with virtualization in surprising ways. That’s the topic of a blog post I wrote for Automation World, which came out today: Three Tips for Safe and Effective Virtualization. It includes some great advice and insights from one of the real luminaries of process control, Matt Gibson of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
While you’re at the Automation World web site, check out Troy DeHart’s excellent article from last year on 4 Steps to Consolidating Multiple Operator Control Stations.
See our blog post at Automation World for more.
What do you think? Has virtualization been a good thing for process control? Does virtualizing a system help make it more secure, or less? What other topics in process control are of interest today? Please leave a comment below or drop me a note at jcage@avidsolutionsinc.com.
– James
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