Automation of specification process for PLC control systems software

Author

Rihar, M. ; Godena, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Autom. Control, Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1289

Abstract

The specification process for advanced industrial process control systems should be conducted by means of a methodology that takes into consideration the specification of control functions and the system architecture. For the domain of industrial process control by PLCs, we have implemented the automation of the specification process within a pragmatic low-cost and easy to use CASE environment, comprising commercial computer tools extended by a dedicated software. Such an environment makes possible domain-oriented non-redundant data entry, automatic data expansion and transfer into the CASE tool repository, and remains an advantage of CASE tool generic functions

Keywords

automatic programming; computer aided software engineering; control system CAD; formal specification; process control; programmable controllers; CASE environment; CASE tool generic functions; CASE tool repository; PLC control systems software; advanced industrial process control systems; automatic data expansion; commercial computer tools; dedicated software; domain-oriented non-redundant data entry; industrial process control; specification process automation; system architecture; Automatic control; Automation; Computer aided software engineering; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Process control; Programmable control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 1999. Proceedings. ETFA '99. 1999 7th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5670-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.1999.813137

Filename

813137