Industrial Automatic Control Systems and Controllers Annotation << Back An application outlook of microprocessor-based programmed control systems for energy-intensive equipment drives at complex machine-building and metallurgical plants Polyakov B.N. The paper suggests to ensure the reliability and longevity of processes and equipment of energy-intensive mining, metallurgical, and machine-building plants by providing them with unified self-tuning microprocessor-based programmable control facilities at minimum costs. This will enable energy conservation, water and process supplies savings, emergency downtime and maintenance costs decrease, and environmental impacts reduction. E-mail: bpoliakov@hotmail.com