The following features enable microprocessor to be a versatile component in an instrumentation system.
- Memory
- Decision making power based on previously entered values
- Repeatability of the reading
- Digital read-out and interactiveness
- Parallel Processing
- Time sharing and multiprocessing
- Data storage, retrieval and transmission
- Effective control of multiple equipment in time sharing basis
- Microprocessors are extremely used where a lot of processing is required
Advantages of Microprocessor based system in an industry
- Reduce operating cost, particularly fuel-saving via optimizing control strategies
- Reduce product give away thru more uniform operations and lighten control enforcement
- Improve responsiveness to change in process, product specification and addition of new products
- Incorporate strategies to minimize product offset resulting from plant equipment failure or unanticipated process conditions and improve plant safety
- Improve more timely information on plant operations and maintenance managers to enable them to keep a plant running longer and more efficiently
- Improve integration of plant operation through co-ordinated control strategies
- Information exchange with other plant for proper synchronization
- Relational Database Management (RDBM) approach and statistical process control strategies
