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Uncertainty and decision flow

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Smart SCADA is a framework for achieving digitization at the factory level. Digitization leads to increased costs, which can be translated into internal transaction costs and coordination costs, these influence choices. Adoption of digitization in processes can have an impact in the business processes themselves, for example leading to changes in internal workflows or leading to changes in inter-process relationships. For this reason, some of the company's processes may need to be redesigned. The effects of adopting a data-centric philosophy also fall on human resources. Indeed, in the face of simplifications in the execution of some activities, specific tasks and duties may need to be heavily modified. New skills are often required, and this may change the values of individuals. Considering I4.0, actions can also affect coordination rules, can change the way each individual agent (person or software) communicates. This chain of changes if well planned leads to noticeable improveme...
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Dunning-Kruger effect in digitalization

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  The Dunning-Kruger effect is a psychological phenomenon that describes the tendency of people with low skill in a given field to overestimate their abilities, while people competent in that field tend to underestimate their abilities. In digitization and I4.0 (Industry 4.0), the Dunning-Kruger effect can manifest itself in different forms. For example, a person with little experience in a specific area of digitization might be convinced that they have more in-depth knowledge than they actually do. Similarly, a person who has only a superficial understanding of I4.0 could be confident that they have a comprehensive understanding of this field. This phenomenon can lead to errors and bad decisions, particularly when these people have the power to make important decisions within an organization. However, increased awareness of the Dunning-Kruger effect can help people avoid falling into this trap. It is important for people to recognize their own limitation and try to learn more abou...
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Data Driven approach

 A "data-driven" approach enables strategic decisions based on data analysis and interpretation. But how to think of a data driven architecture? The data-driven approach is not an exotic concept, it is a real opportunity to reach new levels of service, even if it is not clear how to exploit it. Developing a data driven solution needs a right architecture. The architecture must be designed considering the scenarios related to the concept of digital product (eg: virtual commissioning), digital production (smart manufacturing) and intelligent factory management. Data driven architecture can be thought of as a tetrahedron, where each face represents a digital concept, while the edges represent deliverable digital services. In the attached video a simple definition and relative representation regarding tetrahedral representation.
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Smart SCADA allows to reach a new automation level

Smart SCADA is the main point to reach a new level of automation, this is possible thanks to the breaking principle of the CIM pyramid. Let's see together what are the fundamental principles of Smart SCADA and as long as these allow new openings and methodologies towards automation, thus bringing new paradigms capable of satisfying the new needs of monitoring, control and command in process plants and machines. The principles underlying the Smart SCADA can be summarized in the need to overcome the limits imposed by a model that is too constrained in rigid levels. The advent of the IoT and then the IIoT has opened up new possibilities, this has allowed us to change perspective and thus solve old and unresolved problems with innovative solutions. The Smart SCADA is a modular structure, it must adapt to automation regardless of the brand or technology used. It has to be an interpreter who can understand the missions that come from the conduction level, in order to transfer them to the...
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What is process?

Process is a common word, it is used in many fields. Process is a concept widely used in the management role, in information technology up to automation processes and data processes. A good definition of a process could be: The process is a series of actions that produce something or that allow to lead to a certain result. In the fields of engineering the process can be thought of as a transformation, in fact a process transforms materials into other materials, information into other information or energy into other energy. The concept of process is widely used in the SCADA context. All plants, or machines, can be well modeled by breaking them down into elementary processes. This allows to reduce complexity and to achieve very high levels of control and efficiency. If you are curious about how to use the process concept to create flexible and innovative SCADA systems, follow my blog. W ith pleasure I inform you that there is also my book (currently written in Italian)  Smart SCADA ...
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Brief history of SCADA

The acronym SCADA stands for "Supervisor Control And Data Acquisition", to give meaning to the acronym SCADA can be thought of as a distributed computer system, whose constituent components are hardware and software, the primary purposes are: monitoring, control and supervision of industrial systems processes. SCADA systems were born in the 1960s with the aim of controlling industrial sites that grew in size and complexity. In those years it was necessary to provide a technology capable of controlling and monitoring physical systems efficiently and automatically even in the presence of distributed controls located over large distances. The introduction of SCADA in process control allowed operators (and technicians) to limit manual actions on local commands (example: act on buttons, switches, physical selectors) introducing the possibility to remotely command and control even very large processes, away from the command seat.  SCADA was the reference technology to keep processe...
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What is SCADA?

SCADA is often used as a synonym for supervisor, but this is wrong. I hope my short video helps us all to understand what SCADA is, in particular not to stop at the acronym, we have to consider also the architecture that makes a system a SCADA.
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