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Computer Control in the Corn Industry – Status and Future
Author(s) -
Simms R. L.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
starch ‐ stärke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1521-379X
pISSN - 0038-9056
DOI - 10.1002/star.19810330103
Subject(s) - control (management) , instrumentation (computer programming) , production (economics) , control system , computer technology , engineering , manufacturing engineering , computer science , operations management , agricultural engineering , engineering management , economics , electrical engineering , computer engineering , artificial intelligence , operating system , macroeconomics
In the past few years computer control has become a significant factor in the corn industry. This can be attributed to a) the success of the A. E. Staley Manufactoring Company plant at Lafayette, Indiana (USA), b) the need to better utilize energy and control losses, and c) the steady reduction in the cost of a computer based system. Attitudes of engineering people in the industry is rapidly changing in favour of computer based systems. However, attitudes of production and company management is still conservative. Most new facilities will have computer based instrumentation. There will be an increase in the number of applications in existing plants to make them more efficient. Systems of the future will feature distributed control and a trend from the central control room.