Flexible measurement point management in an industrial automatic supervision system

Industrial automatic supervision system gives us a significantly better view of the process condition and provides operators with tighter control as well. The paper primarily discusses the measurement point (MP) management in an industrial automatic supervision system based on the reconfiguration concept using object-oriented software engineering methodology. The overall architecture of the automatic supervision system is introduced. The crucial issues regarding MP management, such as MP configuration, task configuration, dynamic configuration of MPs and tasks, and system running, etc., are discussed in detail. An illustrative example on the design and testing of a serial port driver is also presented. The design strategy for MP management proved to be successful, since the automatic supervision system has resulted in more efficient use of system resources and therefore greater operator productivity.