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A Distributed Coordination Approach to Reconfigurable Process ControlIntroduction

A Distributed Coordination Approach to Reconfigurable Process Control: Introduction [“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 price reduction is capable of preserving the industrial status quo. The hope for industries — at least in Western countries — lies in variety, differentiation and customisation — all for little or no extra cost. At the heart of successful industrial change management is being able to adapt and reconfigure operations simply and effectively. That is the essence of this book which focuses on the process industries and in particular how control systems of the future can best support the reconfigurability of process operations. The approach being taken here proposes a fundamental architectural change to the way in which control is organised — we examine a distributed, non-hierarchical approach to specifying industrial control systems. We propose this because of the lack of flexibility demonstrated by existing, hierarchically-based industrial control systems and their subsequent inability to easily support the operations required to adapt to changing conditions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer London
Copyright
© Springer-Verlag London Limited 2008
ISBN
978-1-84800-059-9
Pages
3 –14
DOI
10.1007/978-1-84800-060-5_1
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Abstract

[“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 price reduction is capable of preserving the industrial status quo. The hope for industries — at least in Western countries — lies in variety, differentiation and customisation — all for little or no extra cost. At the heart of successful industrial change management is being able to adapt and reconfigure operations simply and effectively. That is the essence of this book which focuses on the process industries and in particular how control systems of the future can best support the reconfigurability of process operations. The approach being taken here proposes a fundamental architectural change to the way in which control is organised — we examine a distributed, non-hierarchical approach to specifying industrial control systems. We propose this because of the lack of flexibility demonstrated by existing, hierarchically-based industrial control systems and their subsequent inability to easily support the operations required to adapt to changing conditions.]

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: Supply Chain; Process Element; Process Industry; Virtual Enterprise; Process Control System

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