THIS BOOK IS A compilation of texts presented by a large number of British authors at an lEE Vacation School for engineers from industry and academia held at the University of Strathclyde, U.K. in September 1990. Artificial intelligence techniques are expected to hold much potential for industrial control systems in the years to come. This is a fascinating and emerging area in which people from...

The integration of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) with IT systems has increased the ICS’ exposure to cyber threats. We have seen a tremendous increase in the number of security incidents happened to ICS in the past five years. This requires the ICS to provide effective incident response capabilities to counteract security attacks. Previous research on ICS incident response has been focusing o...

 With the evolution of data communications in process control, network problems have taken on new importance to process engineers. The data connections from DCS and PLC systems to the plant network are vital to production, yet can be an invitation to problems. This paper looks at several real-life network disasters and discusses strategies for avoiding them. Solutions, including the use of pac...

One key competence for robot manufacturers is robot control, defined as all the technologies needed to control the electromechanical system of an industrial robot. By means of modeling, identification, optimization, and model-based control it is possible to reduce robot cost, increase robot performance, and solve requirements from new automation concepts and new application processes. Model-bas...

In terms of cyber security metrics, ICSs tend to have unique features: in many cases, these systems are older technologies that were designed for functionality rather than security. They are also extremely diverse systems that have different requirements and objectives. Therefore, metrics for ICSs must be tailored to a diverse group of systems with many features and perform many different funct...

This paper is a design and implementation of a monitoring and control system for industrial mixer using PLC .This mixer used for an effective, reliable and highly flexible method for the control of processes within an Industrial environment. The objective of this study is to simulate the control an industrial mixer and by doing this we can develop a program that can be used for the actual imple...

The paper focuses on control analysis and tuning of an already installed temperature control system in a manufacturing plant. The dynamics of the investigated heating ventilation and air conditioning system are inherently nonlinear throughout the operational region. Therefore, it is challenging to tune the adopted proportional-integral controller. For this reason, a nonlinear temperature model,...

Industries such as manufacturing, mining, and transportation have been experiencing mechanization and automation for well over 100 years. Agriculture, in contrast, has lagged behind and only in the last 30 years have these processes been adopted. Long considered a way of life rather than an industry, farming is now becoming as highly industrialized as the traditionally organized businesses. Pes...

The LonWorks platform for device networking has been widely adopted in buildings, industrial facilities, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) applications, homes, semiconductor equipment, and transportation systems. Historically, it has seen limited use in the more traditional industrial sectors and machine controls. The new Pyxos embedded control networking platform has dramaticall...

Most of the interfaces which are designed to control or program industrial robots are complex and require special training for the user. This complexity alongside the changing environment of small medium enterprises (SMEs) has lead to absence of robots from SMEs. The costs of (re)programming the robots and (re)training the robot users exceed initial costs of installation. In order to solve this...