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So, your automation system, whatever it might be, is getting old, or at least older. As the saying goes: “I thought getting old would take longer”. Perhaps your current automation system is running smoothly and has gotten past it’s “growing pains” period and paid back it’s ROI many times over. But now replacement parts to keep it fully operational are getting harder to find, and it is not as easy to maintain or find specialists to do so.

Today’s automation system or process control system, like virtually everything these days, is built from an array of special purpose microprocessors along with computers and networked servers. These systems are referred to as “DCS” systems, which translates to “Distributed Control System”

A variety of purification processes are used across many industries to produce numerous products used for daily consumption. Of many of the purification methods used in processing industries, chromatography is particularly powerful, and is widely used in the production of pharmaceuticals. Chromatography has wide-ranging utility, flexibility across application, and especially the degree to which it can produce compounds of very high purity for human consumption.