Industrial Control Systems - Legacy System Documentation and Augmentation

2018 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS) Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI:10.1109/CCCS.2018.8586843

S. Sudarsan, Devina Mohan, S. Rohit

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Industrial control systems are used to automate process industries. Over 50 billion USD worth such systems are more than 20 years old resulting in their hardware having become outdated. Yet the process remains very little altered. These legacy systems need to be migrated to newer hardware and software platforms to ensure support and compliance to current standards. The time elapsed has resulted in shortage of subject matter and system experts available to understand the nitty gritties of the process functionality implementation in the legacy system using control language of that era. Documentation, if at all existing, is as built and not as running. Hence there is a need to generate documentation that could be understood by current generation automation and process engineers from the back-up of the running legacy system. This paper proposes a novel software tool to generate documents from the legacy industrial control system back-up. We test it with a real legacy system and verify the documents with actual back up. This helps in brownfield engineering migration projects.

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工业控制系统。遗留系统文件和扩充

工业控制系统用于实现过程工业的自动化。价值超过500亿美元的此类系统已经使用了20多年，导致其硬件已经过时。然而，这一过程几乎没有改变。需要将这些遗留系统迁移到较新的硬件和软件平台上，以确保对当前标准的支持和遵从。时间的流逝导致了主题和系统专家的短缺，无法使用那个时代的控制语言来理解遗留系统中过程功能实现的细节。文档(如果存在的话)是构建的，而不是运行的。因此，需要从正在运行的遗留系统的备份中生成能够被当前生成的自动化和过程工程师理解的文档。本文提出了一种新的软件工具，用于从遗留工业控制系统备份中生成文档。我们使用真实的遗留系统进行测试，并使用实际备份验证文档。这有助于棕地工程迁移项目。

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