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Advanced Plant Management System
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<p>The Advanced Plant Management System (APMS) is a <a href="/facts/SCADA/nKL6Mfd1">SCADA</a> solution developed in partnership by RWE <a href="/facts/Npower_(UK)/JdKFVbam">npower</a> and <a href="/facts/Thales_Group/vuBBokok">Thales UK</a>. </p><p>Based on a real-time application platform, APMS is a monitoring and <a href="/facts/Control_system/8CEjIDlS">control system</a> for any large industrial process. APMS is implemented at more than thirty <a href="/facts/Electricity_generation/Uo6mQQ1T">electric power generation</a> units in the UK, including <a href="/facts/Tilbury_Power_Station/Ye8HEfJp">Tilbury</a>, <a href="/facts/Didcot_Power_Station/q6XHj5c9">Didcot A</a>, <a href="/facts/Aberthaw_Power_Station/FgwwWh2b">Aberthaw</a>, <a href="/facts/Drax_power_station/cL9d2A6Y">Drax</a> and <a href="/facts/Rugeley/0YHKXR8P">Rugeley</a> <a href="/facts/Power_station/vYeVY1fD">power stations</a>. </p><p>The APMS system replaced the <a href="http://esolangs.org/wiki/CUTLASS">Cutlass programming language and application system</a> - a real-time control system widely implemented during the 1970s in British power plants by the <a href="/facts/Central_Electricity_Generating_Board/HNXQtpcT">Central Electricity Generating Board</a> (CEGB) research & development team - in National Power power stations. (<a href="/facts/PowerGen/oMBm8hDU">PowerGen</a> in contrast retained and modernised its Cutlass systems.) </p>