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As the world marketplace becomes increasingly customer-driven, manufacturing environments must be highly re-configurable and responsive to accommodate product and process changes, with rigid, static automation systems giving way to more flexible types. To achieve such flexibility it is necessary to have control system, which are inherently flexible. Over the last few years industrial control systems, in common with many other forms of electronic equipment, have exhibited a trend away from centralised control towards far greater use of distributed intelligence (Hanlon and Weston 1982) although the centralised control system still plays an important role in machine controls. For example, distributed control systems are starting to be used in industrial mobile robots because of the greatest flexibility it offers. Volvo Automation has now commenced delivery of its new range of intelligent, semi-autonomous guided vehicles (SAV) to its customers with a distributed control system (Moore et al 1997,1999). Distributed systems denote a computer system which consists of more than one micro/mini computers, may be of different operating systems, which are inter-connected by an efficient computer network and work co-operatively to achieve a common goal (Shatz 1993).
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Xie, C. (2003). Components Based DCS Design Method. In: Mahalik, N.P. (eds) Fieldbus Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07219-6_4
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