A development environment for batch process control

Douglas Troy

doi:10.1016/0166-3615(96)00037-1

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A development environment for batch process control

1996-10-01

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Douglas Troy

Robert J. McQueen

DOI：10.1016/0166-3615(96)00037-1

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A development environment and control modeling language is described which is designed to support the life-cycle of software development for programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in batch process manufacturing. The environment supports process design, logic specification and analysis, simulation, and automatic generation of PLC code from a high level control specification. The environment includes a set of dictionaries and rules, with associated editors, that permit specialization of the environment to particular manufacturing sites. It aims to standardize control code specifications, support reuse of specifications, allow inspection of specifications through simulation and reports, automatically translate the specification to code, and facilitate the long term maintenance of specifications. Its contributions are that it presents a control specification language for batch process control, a set of software tools to support PLC software development. and application of the environment to dairy processing.

Keywords:

control modeling

programmable logic controller (PLC)

relay ladder logic (RLL)

batch processing

automated manufacturing

software development methodology

automatic code generation

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