Industrial Automation

Automation Industrielle
Industrielle Automation

0.0 Course Contents Summer 2005

Prof. Dr. Hubert Kirrmann

ABB Research Center, Baden, Switzerland
2005 March, HK
 Goal of the course

• Understand industrial control systems, their purpose and structure from a practical viewpoint.

• Understand the terms used in publications and standards

• Be able to analyze a plant and propose automation solutions

• Compare the solutions used in automation with other domains

• Become rapidly productive in an industrial company or public utility service

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 Organization of the course

After a general introduction, the course takes a bottom-up approach:

• instrumentation hardware: sensors, actors

• programmable logic controllers: architecture and programming
• industrial communication networks: field busses (general)
• remote access to devices: DDL, MMS
• software interface to application: OPC
• operator interface and SCADA: details
• manufacturing execution systems
enterprise
• notions of plant configuration and system engineering execution

• effects of failures in a control system and how to deal with them supervision

device access
• analysis of availability and safety of a system
communication networks

field devices, controllers

sensors, actors

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 Calendar Summer 2005

Date Chapter Contents Lecturer

March 9: 1 Introduction, Examples, Plants & Control, Architecture HK

March 23: 2 Instrumentation, Programmable logic controllers, field bus HK

April 6: 2 Laboratory at Siemens (only possible date for ELEC students) Siemens

April 13: 2 Laboratory at Siemens (for INF and COM students)) Siemens

April 20: 3 Printing system - Visit to CIEL, Communication with Devices, MMS HK
Edipresse

April 27: 2 Laboratory at Siemens (for INF and COM students)) Siemens

May 4: 4 OPC, Man-machine interface, Batch and Manufacturing HK

guest

May 18: 8, 9 Performance evaluation, Dependability, Reliability and safety HK

June 1: 9 Fault tolerance, Safety analysis HK

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 Exercises and Exams

Participation to the practice, workshop, exercises and visits is part of the course
(questions can be asked at the exam also concerning these parts)

Exercises are carried out in form of personal work, to be presented at the last course on
one-two slides (2 minutes per person).

Workshops are group works during the course

Exams are oral - a set of some 100 questions will be published at the end of the course.
(do not rely on the former year ’s questions)

The course slides will be made available on the web after the course.
http://lamspeople.epfl.ch/kirrmann

Master thesis, trainees (practicands) are welcome.

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 Chapter 1: Processes and Control System

1 Introduction
1.1 Automation and its importance
1.2 Examples of automated processes
1.3 Types of plants and controls
1.3.1 Continuous processes
1.3.2 Discrete processes
1.3.3 Mixed processes
1.4 Automation hierarchy
1.5 Control System Architecture

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 Chapter 2: Instrumentation and Control

2.1 Instrumentation
2.1.1 Binary and analogue instruments
2.1.2 Transducers
2.1.3 Instrumentation diagrams
2.2 Control
2.2.1 Plant modeling
2.2.2 Two-point controller
2.2.3 PID controller
2.2.4 Nested Controllers
2.3 Programmable Logic Controllers
2.3.1 PLCs: Definition and Market
2.3.2 PLCs: Kinds
2.3.3 PLCs: Functions and construction
2.3.4 Continuous and Discrete Control
2.3.5 IEC 61131 languages

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 Chapter 3-4: Communication

3 Industrial communication (see course of Prof. JD Decotignie)

3.1 Field bus principles
3.2 Field bus operation
3.2.1 Physical layer: media and wiring
3.2.2 Link Layer: determinism and redundancy
3.2.3 Application Layer: shared memory and messages paradigm

4. Information Interchange
4.1 Device Access protocols: HART
4.2 Device Description Language
4.3 Manufacturing Messaging Specification
4.4 OPC
4.5 XML / Web Access / OSGi (not given in 2005)

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 Chapters 5-7 Higher levels

5. Man-machine communication
5.1 Hardware and software structure
5.2 Tools

6. Enterprise Level
6.1 Asset Management (gestion des moyens de production)
6.2 Manufacturing Execution Systems
6.3 Enterprise Resource Planning (*)

7. Engineering and Commissioning (*)

7.1 Life Cycle
7.2 Project

(*) not taught in 2005

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 Chapters 8-9 Performance and Dependability

8. Real-time and performance evaluation

9. Dependable control systems

9.1 Dependability, overview and definitions

9.2 Dependability evaluation

9.3 Dependable communication

9.4 Dependable architectures

9.5 Dependable software

9.6 Safety and Hazard analysis (not given in 2004)

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 Questions
exhaust

Bb

heat exchanger
internal buss main grid
recuperator 400 Vac, 3 ph
50 Hz

Bg grid
water loads
LCV 75 kVA
inverter Bt
air filter

fuel compressor turbine

MTG dissipator
generator 100 kW
C2

house
loads
10 kVA 10 kVA < 300 kW
auxiliary loads inverter rectifier

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