Asset management solution based on PROFIBUS-PA profiles

Author

Wollschlaeger, Martin ; Diedrich, Christian ; Müller, Jochen ; Epple, Ulrich

Author_Institution

ifak Inst. f. Autom. u. Kommunikation e.V., Magdeburg, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

15-18 Oct. 2001

Firstpage

719

Abstract

Effective solutions for asset management become increasingly important in modern automation and control systems. They are especially required in the area of process control. The control systems used here usually consist of PLC-based networks, which are optimised concerning the special temporal and topological requirements of the process. Asset management functions have to be introduced to those systems, without any influence on the existing equipment. The paper shows an object-oriented solution based on PROFIBUS-PA device. By automatically evaluating a system structure and mapping the profile-relevant parameters of devices to proxy objects, different application modules for asset management functions can be implemented acting on these objects.

Keywords

controller area networks; object-oriented methods; process control; programmable controllers; PLC-based network optimisation; PROFIBUS-PA device; PROFIBUS-PA profiles; asset management; asset management functions; asset management solution; automation; control systems; object-oriented solution; process control; proxy objects; temporal requirements; topological requirements; Actuators; Asset management; Automatic control; Automation; Control systems; Data engineering; Data mining; Field buses; Process control; Programmable control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Antibes-Juan les Pins, France

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7241-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2001.997766

Filename

997766