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The Smart Distributed System (SDS) offers companies that implement automated assembly lines the opportunity to cost effectively respond to high growth opportunities and quickly changing market conditions. Companies in dynamic businesses are continuously faced with changing capacity, and with ensuring their existing facilities are flexible and cost-effective. These companies need to continually improve the information available from their assembly lines, and have pertinent data available throughout their business systems. Once a system is installed it also becomes critical to detect and remedy problems quickly. This paper describes how control systems based on SDS and personal computers (PC) (a.k.a. Smart Systems) decrease design and installation costs, reduce operating costs, and allow the use of an assembly line sooner than was previously possible. It explains the SDS architecture, and describes some of the components that make up a Smart System. The paper closes with real-world examples.

Rapid Deployment of Assembly Lines Using the Smart Distributed System (.pdf) - Industrial Automation