Multisymmetric Incorporated is using the latest technologies such as Web Services and Microsoft .NET Framework to bring plant automation to the Business Logic. Extending a Distributed Control System (DCS), SCADA, and HMI to participate throughout the entire enterprise. Web enabling technologies can allow deployment outside the plant environment at low costs with virtually no maintenance cost. This will enable business processes the ability to span multiple work platforms and systems on the plant floor. The company has provided SCADA/HMI consulting work in the food packaging industry, liquid petroleum pipeline operation, and air treatment controls for coal burning electric generation plant. Web Services use the W3C standards in XML and SOAP to provide a framework for communicating information anywhere, and information is King. Information trapped inside a PLC can be exposed and utilized by many business systems and used to reconcile these business systems with real-time information.