Second Generation Programmable Logic

has recently been completed. Systems Designers(8), the contractor for the RESCU club of some 22 members, has now initiated a further club, the Cognitive Systems Club (COGSYS), to convert the results of RESCU into a truly commercial, fully supported prod- uct. It is expected to appeal to chemical, food, pharmaceutical and other process industries, the utilities and energy sec- tors, and the parts manufacture and as- sembly industries. Members of the COGSYS club will benefit from sales of the completed product and membership is still open to companies and academic institutions. At the end of 1986, ICI launched Auditor, its plant performance monitor- ing package, with the support of Britain"s Department of Energy and the Chemical Industries Association (CIA). The system, the result of new thinking about the quality of management infor- mation in the production sector in the light of reduced fortunes following the oil crises, is now used in more than 60 ICI plants and is being sold to...