Supervising Control Support System of a Multipurpose Batch Plant Structured by Process and by Activity

Abstract

the aim of this work is to describe the supervising control support system (SCSS) of an order driven multipurpose batch plant operated by processes and by activities. This system generates a control structure in whicjh each activity of the plant has its own supervisory control and all of them are coordinated by a supervisory control structure at the level of process (order). In first place, we briefly describe a framework based on a strategy that uses Petri nets to represent the supervising control. The strategy permits to automate the modeling of the supervising control. In second place, we describe the supervising control support system that we developed based on this framework.