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Modern SCADA systems for railway transport   

Author: V.V. Gaevsky, director of LLC NPP ZHELDORAVTOMATIKA.

Article for the international technical and economic magazine “Ukrainian Zaliznytsia” No. 3-4 (45-46) March-April 2017

The Citect SCADA system is a reliable and flexible system with high performance that can be successfully used in dispatch control and data acquisition systems in any industry, including railways.

Most railway automation and telemechanics systems operate with human participation (station attendant, dispatcher). The interface between a person and a system is called a human-machine interface (HMI), in foreign literature – HMI (Human-Machinery Interface) or MMI (Man-Machinery Interface). In the particular case when an HMI is designed for human interaction with an automated technological process, it is called a SCADA system (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)…

You can read the full text of the article at the link: Modern SCADA systems for railway transport. You can view other issues on the magazine’s website.

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