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A Distributed Coordination Approach to Reconfigurable Process Control

Part of the Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-060-5

ISBN: 978-1-84800-059-9

Publisher: Springer London - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2008

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Introduction

Pages: 3 –14

[“We live in an age of change”. This is the opening line of many current articles in the popular press and nowhere is this permanent evolution being more keenly felt than in the industrial sector. Existing under the shadow of relentless cost cutting for decades, it is now clear that no level of...
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Reconfigurable Process Control Research

Pages: 15 –40

[In this chapter we collect together a number of different developments which lay the foundations for the distributed, reconfigurable process control (DRPC) approach we are proposing. We begin by positioning process operations within the spectrum of industrial production approaches and in...
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DRPC: Distributed Reconfigurable Process Control

Pages: 43 –49

[In the previous chapter we noted that a distributed approach to the design of a process control environment may provide a route to increased reconfigurability and with that the associated business benefits. In this overview chapter and the following three chapters we begin to build up a...
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Reconfigurable Process Control Architecture

Pages: 51 –69

[We now begin to construct the DRPC system from its basic elements and specify how these elements are defined for typical process control functions. The connection between these elements — the so-called control architecture — defines the structure for the process control system resulting from...
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An Interaction Model for Reconfigurable Process Control

Pages: 71 –91

[The previous chapter developed a reconfigurable architecture for process control comprising four basic types of process elements. As discussed these elements must interact in order to exchange information and make collective decisions required for a complete plant-wide control. In this chapter...
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A Distributed Algorithm for Reconfigurable Process Control

Pages: 93 –124

[We now develop a strategy to effectively coordinate the operation of the DRPC system. Predictably, this is in the form of a distributed algorithm for guiding and managing the distributed interactions of process elements to achieve suitable control settings. We focus in particular on the...
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Application of Distributed Coordination Approach — A Case Example

Pages: 127 –148

[To illustrate the application of distributed coordination approach, we now describe an example of an industrial-scale, multipurpose process plant. The example is derived from a similar example in Friedler et al. (1992) and reflects largely the characteristics of modern process plants in...
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Conclusions

Pages: 149 –152

[The research in this monograph has presented a distributed approach to the control of process operations that require a high degree of reconfigurability. A distributed coordination approach based on the distributed paradigms of holonic manufacturing and supply chain management was developed in...

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