An integration architecture for the automation of a continuous production complex

Edgar Chacón, Isabel Besembel, Flor Narciso, Jonás Montilva, Eliezer Colina

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Abstract

The development of integrated automation systems for continuous production plants is a very complicated process. A variety of factors must be taken into account, such as their different components (e.g., production units control systems, planning systems, financial systems, etc.), the interaction among them, and their different behavior (continuous or discrete). Moreover, the difficulty of this process is increased by the fact that each component can be viewed in a different way depending on the kind of decisions to be made, and its specific behavior. Modeling continuous production complexes as a composition of components, where, in turn, each component may also be a composite, appears to be the simplest and safest way to develop integrated automation systems. In order to provide the most versatile way to develop this kind of system, this work proposes a new approach for designing and building them, where process behavior, operation conditions and equipment conditions are integrated into a hierarchical automation architecture.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)95-113
Number of pages19
JournalISA transactions
Volume41
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2002
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Enterprise architecture models
  • Enterprise integration
  • Hierarchical automation systems
  • Object oriented systems
  • Process automation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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