Flexible process control for injection molding machines using Java technology

Author

Cheng, Chi-Cheng ; Tseng, Yih-Tun ; Zhao, Ying Jie ; Lee, Win-Cher ; Liu, Tung-Kuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Electro-Mech. Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Volume

6

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

4726

Abstract

Java is an ideal programming language for development of industrial control systems because of its object-oriented, distributed, and architecture independent features. Traditional control systems for industrial applications are designed according to related task functions in their specific environment. Development and maintenance of control systems always suffer from lacking of reusability and portability of code. In this paper, a Java-based control system, which incorporates the Java technology and an embedded real-time operating system, is developed for an injection-molding machine. Hence, different PC-based controllers can fully work with the same software code of the control law. Hardware-independent process control for industrial automation therefore becomes possible using the Java technology.

Keywords

Java; microcomputer applications; moulding; process control; Java; PC-based controllers; control system development; control system maintenance; embedded real-time operating system; flexible process control; hardware-independent process control; industrial control systems; injection molding machines; injection-molding machine; object-oriented distributed architecture-independent features; Automatic control; Computer languages; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Injection molding; Java; Operating systems; Process control; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7298-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.2002.1025404

Filename

1025404