The automation technology used to manage and perform various industrial operations such as line management control and operations control are part of what is known as operational technology:
Industrial control systems (ICS) cover a huge part of the operational technology segment, and are used to monitor and control various operations such as automating production, the control and monitoring of hardware systems, regulating temperature by controlling water levels, and the flow at a nuclear facility. Most ICS usage is done in very critical systems that are required to be available all the time.
The hardware that is used for ICS is of two types, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), or discrete process control systems (DPC), which are in turn managed by Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. SCADA allows and makes easy the management...