Over past decades industrial IT evolved separately in the field automation and office automation domains. Nowadays increasing complexity of manufacturing requiresmore advanced control, which can be achieved only by integrating these, formerly separated, areas. This article focuses on two aspects of such integration: communication-related, interconnecting networks of different kinds, and functio...

Industrial automation applications across all segments—from factory, machine, and process automation to energy generation, distribution, and transportation—require an increasing amount of safety-enabled equipment. This white paper explores a case study on industrial system on a chip (SoC)—a drive on a chip—to explain how engineers can save up to 18 months of design time in achieving product cer...

The synchronization of clocks in distributed systems is an enabling technology for real-time industrial automation applications using Ethernet. Clock synchronization systems are enablers to bring real-time and automation constraints together with well-introduced technologies used in the office and management level. Nevertheless, the architectural advantages of Industrial Ethernet seamless integ...

The cost of developing and operating control and automation systems is a crucial factor of productivity and competitiveness for a number of applications in manufacturing plants, quality control systems and robotics. This paper has been focused on practical use of technologies that provided significant cost reduction in operating automated systems for a variety of industrial applications and bui...

−− In tasks requiring human supervision in an industrial control room there are applied generic disciplines like automatic control and engineering systems. From the point of view of the human computer interaction applied to these disciplines it is necessary to add usability engineering and cognitive ergonomics. This integrated framework is an example of human-centred design on automation system...

In this work, we propose a general reference model for planning and production factors management. Then, such a model is applied for proposing a system for the ERP problem for the automation applications. This multiagent system is specified in the framework of the SCDIA reference model by using the MASINA Methodology. Key-Words: Industrial Automation, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Multiag...

Web standards developed mainly by W3C and OASIS shape the general IT domain and its applications. Due to the scale of web applications, the web standards have matured to deal with typical situations of finding the right node on the network, reconfiguring the routing for messaging, using common standards for representing graphical information and many others. Industrial manufacturing can benefit...

—Industrial automation systems (IASs) are traditionally developed using a sequential approach where the automation software, which is commonly based on the IEC 61131 languages, is developed when the design and in many cases the implementation of mechanical parts have been completed. However, it is claimed that this approach does not lead to the optimal system design and that the IEC 61131 does ...

1 Jussi Horelli, HAMK University of Applied Sciences, [email protected] 2 Jari Jussila, Mendiant, [email protected] 3 Juha Katajisto, Insolution , [email protected] Abstract Automation systems offer many possibilities when developing safety and energy efficiency related to resident housing. Automation has been most widely used in public buildings but the use of these syste...