Human system interface for manufacturing control — Industrial implementation

Abstract

In the paper current results of a project devoted to industrial implementation of Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) for small and medium production companies are presented. Current work is concentrated on designing and creating hardware and software infrastructure as well as human system interface (HSI). So far, hardware for a factory floor level has been selected, a preliminary industrial testbed with simple HSI was constructed and tested in a real factory, and an advanced HSI was designed and implemented. It was proven that the main development-related barrier, pointed out in the literature, for industrial deployment of IMS, i.e. absence of industrial controllers with appropriate capabilities, is out-of-date. It was shown that modern embedded PC controllers facilitate implementations of advanced HSI/HMI (human machine interface) and allow integration of human operators and manufacturing resources into an Intelligent Manufacturing Control System.

A literature review on technologies in future small-scale intelligent manufacturing systems

“…Reference [17] states that a promising organizational structure for the future IMS is a composition of distributed and autonomous units that would cooperate in order to reach a specific goal. Based on the research presented in [17] it is stated that "an agent based software is designated as technology for industrial IMS realization, regardless of the chosen organizational architecture".…”

“…Reference [17] states that a promising organizational structure for the future IMS is a composition of distributed and autonomous units that would cooperate in order to reach a specific goal. Based on the research presented in [17] it is stated that "an agent based software is designated as technology for industrial IMS realization, regardless of the chosen organizational architecture". In the same reference it is argued that based on their conceptual similarities, combination of holonic manufacturing system architecture with multi-agent software technology is currently the most "promising basis for industrial implementation of IMS" (see Fig.…”

Computational Intelligence application in fasteners manufacturing

“…It is worth emphasizing that the developed software solutions are not using any commercial SCADA or process monitoring subsystems [6,7,8]. The system has an open structure and it is planned to develop a multiagent structure of the system in the future [6].…”

“…PAC dedicated software and server components are used for this module. An online view of machine working states and historical reports are provided for production management personnel in the web applications [6,7,8].…”

“…IMS industrial application requires computer and factory automation systems characterized by a distributed structure, direct communication with manufacturing resources and the application of sophisticated embedded devices on a factory floor level [5,6,7,8].…”