Los sistemas de fabricación actuales están controlados y supervisados por controladores lógicos programables. El análisis y mantenimiento de un programa de control es una tarea muy compleja debido a su gran tamaño medido tanto en líneas de código como en número de variables utilizadas. El análisis de los posibles problemas que puede presentar el proceso controlado, como por ejemplo, cuellos de botella y bloqueos, requiere de herramientas formales. Sin embargo, las herramientas existentes presentan importantes limitaciones. En este trabajo se propone el uso del diagrama de evolución del estado para realizar dicho análisis. Este diagrama complementa a otras herramientas formales basadas en redes de Petri o autómatas finitos y permite analizar los sistemas de control lógico a partir de las señales físicas del proceso. Resulta ser una herramienta de gran utilidad en las fases de validación y puesta en marcha, así como para la supervisión de procesos durante la fase de ejecución.
Automation and control of processes in a food industry is a very important aim. The main reasons are: guaranteeing a better quality of the final product, reducing cost time and improving the use of the raw materials. Specifically, drying and storage grain industries have plants which, in many cases, are out of phase. Besides, they are controlled by machine operators. Our work has consisted in developing a total and supervision automated system to control most of the processes. A first step has been to automate four cereal dryers in order to collect data. Subsequently, a control has been designed to get a constant value of moisture of the grain. At the same time, these data have been used to obtain a total traceability of the process.
This article explains a SCADA System called SCADA Web developed by CARTIF Foundation. This SCADA System makes possible remote monitoring and control from the process controlled by PLC using Web Technology. SCADA Web has been developed on platform Java EE and provides visualization and control signals, trend charts, alarms, historical data and alarm reports.
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