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The need to adapt to the demands of global supply chains in real-time is of significant importance to the future success of continuous process industries. Amongst such business drivers, it will become critical that process plants are designed to be easily reconfigured as and when necessary. Recent developments in process control have attempted to address this requirement, yet there has not been a systematic effort made on the analysis of the fundamental shortcomings in the modularity of process control systems.
<EM>A Distributed Coordination Approach to Reconfigurable Process Control presents research that addresses this critical question, via developing a new distributed framework that will enable the building of a process control system that is capable of reconfigurability. This framework views the process as a set of readily-integrated, modular process elements, which operate relatively independently and are each supported by a degree of stand-alone decision-making capability. The rationale and benefits of moving towards the new approach is demonstrated by means of a worked example of a real process plant.
<EM>A Distributed Coordination Approach to Reconfigurable Process Control will be a useful reference to both academic and industrial practitioners working in the field of design and integration of process control systems. The new architectural dimension presented in this research will also help end-users to gain an understanding of the economic aspects of material flows across their plants, and the ways in which their processes can be integrated across the enterprise.
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Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing Series Editor Professor D.T. Pham Manufacturing Engineering Centre Cardiff University Queen's Building Newport Road Cardiff CF24 3AA UK Other titles in this series Assembly Line Design B. Rekiek and A. Delchambre Advances in Design H.A. ElMaraghy and W.H. ElMaraghy (Eds.) Effective Resource Management in Manufacturing Systems: Optimization Algorithms in Production Planning M. Caramia and P. Dell'Olmo Condition Monitoring and Control for Intelligent Manufacturing L. Wang and R.X. Gao (Eds.) Optimal Production Planning for PCB Assembly W. Ho and P. Ji Trends in Supply Chain Design and Management: Technologies and Methodologies H. Jung, F.F. Chen and B. Jeong (Eds.) Process Planning and Scheduling for Distributed Manufacturing L. Wang and W. Shen (Eds.) Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications W.D. Li, S.K. Ong, A.Y.C. Nee and C. McMahon (Eds.) Decision Making in the Manufacturing Environment R. Venkata Rao Frontiers in Computing Technologies for Manufacturing Applications Y. Shimizu, Z. Zhang and R. Batres Reverse Engineering: An Industrial Perspective V. Raja and K.J. Fernandes (Eds.) Automated Nanohandling by Microrobots S. Fatikow Nirav N. Chokshi • Duncan C. McFarlane A Distributed Coordination Approach to Reconfigurable Process Control 4y Spri rineer Nirav N. Chokshi, PhD Duncan C. McFarlane, PhD Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) Department of Engineering University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 1RX UK ISBN 978-1-84800-059-9 e-ISBN 978-1-84800-060-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-84800-060-5 Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing ISSN 1860-5168 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2007938255 © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2008 MATLAB® is aregisteredtrademark of The MathWorks, Inc., 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, MA 01760-2098, USA. http://www.mathworks.com Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored