Pub Date : 2015-05-27DOI: 10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160551
Lukas Itin, H. D. Doran
Modern Real Time Ethernet technologies rely on well-described hardware acceleration techniques to ensure that hard real-time deadlines are met. Real Time Ethernet is also often used in situations where appreciable non real-time bandwidth is used and where throughput is important. In this paper, using the example of PROFINET, we examine the performance of various communication controller architectures in non-real-time data handling. Finding the performance not up to industry requirements we propose a multiprocessor architecture and describe an implementation and measurement results. This architecture allows better partitioning of communication and application processing whilst supporting maximum bandwidth utilization for non-real-time traffic.
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Pub Date : 2015-05-27DOI: 10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160556
A. Bratukhin, A. Nagy, A. Mahmood
Modern trends in automation require flexible production with an onus on saving energy. Till recently, the focus of production systems has been only saving production costs, but the growing concern over environmental impact of such system has led to a partial change in paradigm. The key for the future generation production system is to successfully integrate the manufacturing environment with energy optimisation. This relies on transparent representation of the building from the point of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that is not feasible using conventional centralized approaches to building thermal modeling and optimization. This work focuses on distributing the building automation system in a set of generic cells that encapsulate thermal energy models and optimization algorithms to minimize computational resources required for the system implementation on embedded devices. Combined with a notion of the global overview of the energy optimization with functional aggregation and dynamic clustering concepts, the proposed architecture provides a flexible energy saving solution that can be easily integrated in majority of conventional manufacturing systems as well as related factory buildings without compromising production operations.
{"title":"Distribution of control functionality in energy-aware industrial building environment","authors":"A. Bratukhin, A. Nagy, A. Mahmood","doi":"10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160556","url":null,"abstract":"Modern trends in automation require flexible production with an onus on saving energy. Till recently, the focus of production systems has been only saving production costs, but the growing concern over environmental impact of such system has led to a partial change in paradigm. The key for the future generation production system is to successfully integrate the manufacturing environment with energy optimisation. This relies on transparent representation of the building from the point of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that is not feasible using conventional centralized approaches to building thermal modeling and optimization. This work focuses on distributing the building automation system in a set of generic cells that encapsulate thermal energy models and optimization algorithms to minimize computational resources required for the system implementation on embedded devices. Combined with a notion of the global overview of the energy optimization with functional aggregation and dynamic clustering concepts, the proposed architecture provides a flexible energy saving solution that can be easily integrated in majority of conventional manufacturing systems as well as related factory buildings without compromising production operations.","PeriodicalId":6531,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE World Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79359074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-05-27DOI: 10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160555
M. Wollschlaeger, S. Theurich, A. Winter, Frank Lubnau, C. Paulitsch
Condition monitoring and diagnostic systems support the operators of machines and plants. By these means, machine operators can run their plants efficiently, perform effective preventive maintenance and supply superordinate information systems with valid machine data. This paper describes the VDMA reference architecture for condition monitoring systems. The components of the architecture are described and their application across all levels of an automation system is shown, combining the single functions to a complete condition monitoring system.
{"title":"A reference architecture for condition monitoring","authors":"M. Wollschlaeger, S. Theurich, A. Winter, Frank Lubnau, C. Paulitsch","doi":"10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160555","url":null,"abstract":"Condition monitoring and diagnostic systems support the operators of machines and plants. By these means, machine operators can run their plants efficiently, perform effective preventive maintenance and supply superordinate information systems with valid machine data. This paper describes the VDMA reference architecture for condition monitoring systems. The components of the architecture are described and their application across all levels of an automation system is shown, combining the single functions to a complete condition monitoring system.","PeriodicalId":6531,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE World Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80186043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-05-27DOI: 10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160574
Marcelo V. García, F. Pérez, I. Calvo, Guadalupe Morán
The adoption of new technologies and automation standards, such as OPC-UA and IEC61499, is essential in order to satisfy the flexibility and reconfiguration needs required at the Factories of the Future. Currently, the Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are at the core of the new control and automation distributed systems. However, it is necessary to provide the research community with low cost platforms capable of integrating these new technologies and standards for prototyping new products and concepts. This work presents a low-cost embedded architecture capable of providing process data by means of OPC-UA services, integrated as IEC61499 blocks. Thus, IEC61499 provides high-level capabilities by combining easily software components with independence of the hardware platform used.
{"title":"Developing CPPS within IEC-61499 based on low cost devices","authors":"Marcelo V. García, F. Pérez, I. Calvo, Guadalupe Morán","doi":"10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160574","url":null,"abstract":"The adoption of new technologies and automation standards, such as OPC-UA and IEC61499, is essential in order to satisfy the flexibility and reconfiguration needs required at the Factories of the Future. Currently, the Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are at the core of the new control and automation distributed systems. However, it is necessary to provide the research community with low cost platforms capable of integrating these new technologies and standards for prototyping new products and concepts. This work presents a low-cost embedded architecture capable of providing process data by means of OPC-UA services, integrated as IEC61499 blocks. Thus, IEC61499 provides high-level capabilities by combining easily software components with independence of the hardware platform used.","PeriodicalId":6531,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE World Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)","volume":"62 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84491397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-05-27DOI: 10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160546
P. Ferrari, A. Flammini, S. Rinaldi, M. Rizzi, E. Sisinni, G. Prytz
Large industrial automation networks based on Real-Time Ethernet protocols may need efficient multicast management and filtering in order to control traffic load and to guarantee the desired quality of service. Very often industrial network are required to be highly available, implying the use of redundancy protocols, and thus, the use of dynamic (layer 2) multicast reconfiguration may be effective. This paper evaluates the application of standard IEEE Multiple MAC registration Protocol (MMRP) to industrial automation scenarios. Two main application fields are considered: large (and slow) process automation plants; and fast factory automation networks inside electric substations for measuring and protection. Following analytical and simulation approaches complete model of MMRP has been developed. Last, a new set of protocol parameters is proposed to maximize effectiveness of MMRP in industrial scenarios: a great network load reduction and a multicast reconfiguration time of 40 ms after a fault can be obtained in networks with complex topology.
{"title":"On the use of multiple MAC registration protocol in industrial networks","authors":"P. Ferrari, A. Flammini, S. Rinaldi, M. Rizzi, E. Sisinni, G. Prytz","doi":"10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WFCS.2015.7160546","url":null,"abstract":"Large industrial automation networks based on Real-Time Ethernet protocols may need efficient multicast management and filtering in order to control traffic load and to guarantee the desired quality of service. Very often industrial network are required to be highly available, implying the use of redundancy protocols, and thus, the use of dynamic (layer 2) multicast reconfiguration may be effective. This paper evaluates the application of standard IEEE Multiple MAC registration Protocol (MMRP) to industrial automation scenarios. Two main application fields are considered: large (and slow) process automation plants; and fast factory automation networks inside electric substations for measuring and protection. Following analytical and simulation approaches complete model of MMRP has been developed. Last, a new set of protocol parameters is proposed to maximize effectiveness of MMRP in industrial scenarios: a great network load reduction and a multicast reconfiguration time of 40 ms after a fault can be obtained in networks with complex topology.","PeriodicalId":6531,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE World Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)","volume":"70 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83539672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}