Open cloud solution for integrating advanced process control in plant operation

Author

Chenaru, Oana ; Stanciu, Alexandru ; Popescu, Dan ; Sima, Vasile ; Florea, Gheorghe ; Dobrescu, Radu

Author_Institution

Societatea de Inginerie Sisteme SIS, Bucharest, Romania

fYear

2015

fDate

16-19 June 2015

Firstpage

973

Lastpage

978

Abstract

This paper presents a model for integrating an advanced process control library in a cloud-based environment. The aim is to lower the development times, to reduce maintenance effort and decrease the complexity of process control applications by adopting a modular approach consisting of generic, reusable control strategies following an IEC 61499 representation. The solution uses open cloud technologies based on Heroku for the deployment in a public cloud structure and Docker for increased portability of the designed solution. The conceptual architecture of the system is presented, as well as the details of the execution module.

Keywords

IEC standards; cloud computing; control engineering computing; industrial plants; process control; production engineering computing; Docker; Heroku; IEC 61499 representation; advanced process control library; cloud computing; development time reduction; maintenance effort reduction; open cloud technologies; plant operation; process control application complexity reduction; public cloud structure; reusable control strategies; Automation; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Containers; IEC standards; Monitoring; Process control; Cloud computing; IEC 61499; Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); advanced process control; remon execution; web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Automation (MED), 2015 23th Mediterranean Conference on

Conference_Location

Torremolinos

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MED.2015.7158884

Filename

7158884