Paper Info
Title
The Upgrade Planning Process in a Global Operational Environment.
Abstract
Industrial automation systems are multi-technological systems that contain in-house developed and COTS hardware and software sub-systems. Automation systems can be used to control various industrial processes ranging from water management to pulp and paper production. These systems are used for a long time and are upgraded in order to keep the system up-to-date. Typically, automation system providers serve their customers worldwide, meaning that the service operations are spread geographically over several continents. Furthermore, the service organisation needs to cooperate internally with R&D and externally with customers and COTS providers so as to gain a necessary understanding of which upgrades are urgent and which can be done later. This paper discusses the importance of a systematic upgrade planning service in a distributed operational environment and presents as well as demonstrates the process description and related tools that have been composed based on an industrial case study in an automation company.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_39
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Automation system,Upgrade,Lifecycle,Transparency
Transparency (graphic),ISA100.11a,Totally integrated automation,Process automation system,Systems engineering,Service system,Automation,Upgrade,Software,Engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8842
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jukka Kääriäinen1486.78
Susanna Teppola2784.91
Matias Vierimaa300.34
Antti Välimäki4396.19