Is Your Manufacturing Facility Ready for Virtual Control?
Key Highlights
- Virtual controllers are proving themselves in lab, QA, and digital twin environments, but production-floor adoption is still emerging, with batch manufacturing likely to lead the way over discrete processes due to fewer deterministic constraints.
- Redundant power supplies, managed switches with rapid spanning tree protocols and resilient network architecture are just as critical as the virtual infrastructure itself when building a reliable, high-availability virtualized control system.
- Successful virtualization demands a convergence of IT and OT expertise along with proactive system monitoring, regular security patching, and clearly defined response protocols to maintain uptime.
