A Smart Supervisory Control System framework for a sugar mill crystallisation stage

This paper discusses the framework of an expert advisory system designed to provide expert knowledge in the control and management of a sugar mill crystallization stage. The Smart Supervisory Control System (SSCS) is fundamentally a hybrid fuzzy logic based expert system that incorporates fuzzy logic, explanatory capabilities and dynamic interrelational process models of the crystallisation stage. The primary topic of this paper will be a description of the framework of the SSCS system with focus on: (1) modular design, (2) system layering, and (3) system features.