Thursday, December 5, 2024

Automation versus budgets: Benchmarking to enable future installation success

2025 automation projects loom large; many already are in the planning or design stages. Have you been measuring the right things today to ensure future automation project success? What baselines should be considered? What needs measuring and why for better specifications and results? Control and automation system integrators talk about how benchmarks contribute to future application success and how and when measurements should change over time. (Whose version of the truth is being used and for what?)

Learning objectives

Understand what measurements need to be gathered and used to help justify, specify and select automated devices and systems.

Assess and plan for benchmarking required to help ensure automation is applied first in the right areas and becomes part of a master plan for investments over time.

See examples of how planning contributes to automation project success and learn what changes are needed to increase probability of measurable benefits.