WHAT ARE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DCS AND SCADA?

Answer Posted / rafiq

dcs is nothing but distributed control system. i.e we are
distributing the control system
scada is nothing but supervisory control and data
acquisition. i.e it gathers the data from the process and
decides after that sends an response to the controller

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