Paper Info
Title
Field device specification for the development of function block oriented engineering support systems
Abstract
The function block (FB) concept is proposed by evolving standards to address most of the problems encountered in the development process of distributed industrial process measurement and control systems (IPMCS) applications. To increase modularity, reliability and expandability of FB-based IPMCS applications as well as to automate the development process and increase reusability, new generation FB-oriented engineering support systems (ESS), are highly required. These ESSs should be able to exploit FBs provided by intelligent field devices, which are expected to appear in the market in the near future, and also assign functionality to the great number of different field devices that already exist in the market. A common field device model is strongly required to accomplish both the above tasks. In the context of this work, we consider the requirements for the field device model imposed both by the development of the FB-oriented ESSs and the demand for device interoperability during the fieldbus operation phase. We use the Unified Modelling Language (UML) to proceed to the definition of the field device model. This model, combined with our 4-layer IPMCS architecture, constitutes a framework that facilitates the development of open FB-oriented ESSs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/ETFA.2001.996417
Antibes-Juan les Pins, France
Keywords
Field
DocType
control engineering computing,distributed control,field buses,formal specification,intelligent control,open systems,process control,reliability,specification languages,ESS,FB-based IPMCS,UML,Unified Modelling Language,device interoperability,distributed industrial process control systems,distributed industrial process measurement systems,engineering support systems,expandability,field device specification,fieldbus operation phase,function block oriented engineering support systems,intelligent field devices,modularity,reliability,reusability,standards evolution
Unified Modeling Language,Systems engineering,Computer science,Engineering support,Interoperability,Formal specification,Process control,Open system (systems theory),Modularity,Fieldbus
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-7241-7
4
0.64
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kleanthis Thramboulidis129338.13
Aggeliki Prayati2476.44