# Airgas upgrades DCS to Siemens PCS 7

Airgas completed a rip-and-replace upgrade of its 25-year-old Foxboro I/A DCS to Siemens PCS 7 at one of its facilities, with a 10-day shutdown for system cutover after two years of preparation.

- Type: Investment
- Announced: 2019-07-31
- Where: United States
- Status: completed
- Products: distributed control system
- Sectors: [Automation and Robotics](https://endata.com/sectors/automation-robotics.md)

## Companies

- [Airgas](https://endata.com/companies/26199.md)
- [Air Liquide](https://endata.com/companies/2132.md) (investor)
- [Applied Control Engineering](https://endata.com/companies/41003.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [automationworld.com](https://www.automationworld.com/home/news/13320034/airgas-upgrades-to-pcs-7), 2019-07-31: "We knew how the system looked then, but we needed to know how the system looked in 2019."

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