1. Seamless Integration: DCS utilizes a common automation platform for seamless integration between critical process areas and the balance of your plant1. It connects process, discrete, power, information, and safety control into one plant-wide infrastructure.

2. Increased Efficiency and Productivity: This integrated approach increases efficiencies and productivity across all layers of your operations1. It eliminates disparate control systems, results in significant optimization improvements, and helps reduce your total cost of ownership.

3. Real-Time Information Availability: DCS is based on secured, open communication standards leveraging EtherNet/IP as its backbone1. As a result, real-time information is readily available throughout the enterprise for better business decisions.

4. Improved Productivity: A modern DCS helps improve productivity by delivering production intelligence and visibility into your enterprise-level systems, helping to drive efficiencies1.

5. Enhanced Security: It addresses industrial security from the individual device on the plant floor to the enterprise level.

6. Flexibility and Scalability: The system provides a wide range of architecture options for increased flexibility. The same platform can be used for single stations or large distributed architectures. It also offers scalable system capabilities. also offers scalable system capabilities1.