Gupta, M. S.
ARC Advisory Group, Burlington, Massachusetts
Mark Sen Gupta is a Senior Consultant at ARC, leading the coverage of process automation and automation supplier services. He also covers topics in process safety and SCADA. Mr. Gupta has more than 24 yr of expertise in process control, alarm management, SCADA and IT applications. He holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Traditionally, conversations around automation and safety have focused largely on logic solvers and instrumentation. However, new disruptive technologies and a rapid expansion in networking and computing resources have broadened the scope of automation’s reach. These transformative technologies and approaches promise to reduce incidents and increase production in ways industry could only imagine in the past; but while the “pieces” are available, organizational silos and entrenched cultures stand in the way.
ARC Advisory Group’s 23rd annual Industry Forum included a panel discussion that explored the relative merits of integrated vs. non-integrated safety systems in an increasingly connected world.
Technology is changing, and fast. Labor availability and skillset requirements are changing, as well. Process control personnel makeup and skillsets have evolved over decades of iterations. The process industries are challenged to continue to operate efficiently in an increasingly competitive environment.
With few exceptions, control architecture in the process industries has changed little over the past 40 years.
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