Industrial Automation

Automation Industrielle
Industrielle Automation

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2011 February, HK

Prof. Dr. Hubert Kirrmann

ABB Research Center, Baden, Switzerland

Goal of the course

Raise interest for automation systems

Understand industrial control systems, their purpose and structure.

Understand the methods and trade-offs in real-time systems

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

Analyze the reliability, availability and safety of a system

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

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Calendar Spring 2011

# Date

Chapter Contents

Feb 22
Plants & Control, Control System architecture
March 1
no course
March 8
Open Loop and Closed Loop control
March 15
Programming in IEC 61131
March 22
Instrumentation, Field bus, HART,
March 29
MMS, Application Interface protocols
April 5
OPC
April 12
Human interface
April 19
Laboratory at Siemens (8h00-16h00)
April 27
no course (EPFL vacations)
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May 3
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Lecturer
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HK
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HK
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HK
HK
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HK
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Siemens
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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 (internships) at ABB are welcome.

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Organization of the course

enterprise

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5

execution

supervision

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real-time
dependability

2.2

device access

communication networks

2.3

field devices, controllers

2.1

sensors, actors

physical plant

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Network view
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Operator

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vertical Comm.

SCADA level

horizontal

Control level

4.2

Engineering

4.3
communication
Control Bus
programmable
controllers

Fieldbus

Fieldbus
microPLCs

direct I/O
Field level

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2.3
4.1

Sensor-Aktoren bus (ASI..)

2.1
transducers / actors

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Organization of the course

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

how is the state of a plant read and controlled

controllers: hardware and software

how controllers operate and how they are programmed

industrial communication networks:

how are real-time data exchanged, in the field and in the plant

application protocols for devices

how do devices appear to the programmer and operator

software interface to application:

how does the application accesses the process data

operator interface and SCADA

how does the operator see the plant it supervises

manufacturing execution systems

how is a production planned and executed

plant configuration and engineering

how is a control system conceived, engineered and tested

failures in a control system

how to deal with unreliable elements in a control system

safety

how to evaluate and prevent safety hazards

standards

how standards help the industry

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Who works in Automation ?

Tech schools
Physics
Electronics
Informatics
Communications

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university

ETH / EPFL

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What should an automation engineer bring ?

Curiosity:

I want to understand

Learn-hungry:

I learn fast my knowledge is volatile

Basic Physics:

I can make a model of my world

Mathematics

I know how to calculate

Programming:

I can structure

Systematic Work:

I can plan

Initiative:

I can try.

Language:

I can speak with my colleagues worlwide

Sane understanding

I am critical of the others and myself

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To probe further

Olsson, Gustav & Rosen, Christian industrial automation,

Dept. Of Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation,
Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

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