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Magic dust demo, coordination control, ISA88 Part 1
During a recent packaging automation event in Chicago there was a tutorial about OMAC’s PackML state model and the Make2Pack effort to develop the next installment, Part 5, of the ISA88 series of standards. The tutorial had over 40 people attend, and the feedback was great!
One of the focus areas was what ISA88 defines as equipment coordination control. Often referred to as “Magic Dust.” Coordination control is mentioned throughout the ISA88 Part 1 standard and occurs not only in equipment control but also in the recipe management areas.
As of now there is no consolidated term to deal with “Recipe Control” as there is with “Equipment Control.” I’ll take this on in another blog installment.
The focus of Part 5 is how to turn the magic dust of equipment control into an engineering discipline that brings the industry to a consistent implementation of the concept of coordination control so there is less custom artistry and more disciplined engineering.
An implementation demonstrating the concepts was part of the OMAC hands on demo and was supplied by GE Fanuc in the form of a control hierarchy that included several Make2Pack automation objects providing control for modules managing the Make2Pack prototype conveyor (see Conveyor figure) and also the two conveyors acting as a system, as shown in the system figure.
These objects contained all of the coordination control components as described by the part 5 effort and allowed both automation and human interaction with the equipment without conflict! The magic dust of coordination control extended through several layers of the automation hierarchy from the PackML state model providing the highest level procedural sequencing all the way down to the on/off basic control of the conveyor motor.
Please use the tools below to comment or provide input. Want to learn more to help make integrating batch control, process control and machine control easier? Browse prior postings and comments at this blog, Standard profits: Make2Pack and ISA88.
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Magic dust demo, coordination control, ISA88 Part 1
May 31, 2008
During a recent packaging automation event in Chicago there was a tutorial about OMAC’s PackML state model and the Make2Pack effort to develop the next installment, Part 5, of the ISA88 series of standards. The tutorial had over 40 people attend, and the feedback was great!  |
| Conveyor figure: Make2Pack prototype conveyor, May 2008 |
As of now there is no consolidated term to deal with “Recipe Control” as there is with “Equipment Control.” I’ll take this on in another blog installment.
The focus of Part 5 is how to turn the magic dust of equipment control into an engineering discipline that brings the industry to a consistent implementation of the concept of coordination control so there is less custom artistry and more disciplined engineering.
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| System figure: Make2Pack automation objects providing control for modules managing the two conveyors act as a system, May 2008. |
These objects contained all of the coordination control components as described by the part 5 effort and allowed both automation and human interaction with the equipment without conflict! The magic dust of coordination control extended through several layers of the automation hierarchy from the PackML state model providing the highest level procedural sequencing all the way down to the on/off basic control of the conveyor motor.
Please use the tools below to comment or provide input. Want to learn more to help make integrating batch control, process control and machine control easier? Browse prior postings and comments at this blog, Standard profits: Make2Pack and ISA88.
Join the Make2Pack ISA88 Part 5 effort!
Posted by David Chappell on May 31, 2008 | Comments (0)
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