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Moving toward IT and controls engineering convergence

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This paper provides a current snapshot of the IT/controls dynamic based on interviews with more than 20 professionals in IT and manufacturing. Their feedback was the foundation for development of a maturity model that shows the three distinct paths and five stages of maturity for each of the major categories of issues: organizational, business process, technology deployment and results.

By Julie Fraser, principal and industry analyst, Industry Directions Inc., and Ray Zimmermann, principal and founder of Systems Innovation Management

As manufacturers continue on their quest for optimum performance in the face of a constantly shifting marketplace, there’s no question that informed decision making based on real-time data is required for success. However, many companies do not have an identifiable group that focuses on plant-level information and systems. Information Technology (IT) does what it does, and controls engineering departments do what they do. That has to change. To truly leverage the data needed to improve performance, companies must tear down the long-standing barrier between IT and plant floor controls engineering systems and groups.

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