Automated PLC software generation based on standardized digital process information

Author

Bergert, Martin ; Diedrich, Christian ; Kiefer, Jens ; Bär, Thomas

Author_Institution

Magdeburg Univ., Magdeburg

fYear

2007

fDate

25-28 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

359

Abstract

In order to meet the various challenges in the automotive industry, new and integrated methodologies for production planning and ramp-up processes are required. Thus, a concept for automated PLC software generation based on standardized digital process information is introduced with the special focus on the needs of the body shop in the automotive industry. The foundation for PLC software generation is a digital process plan that describes the production steps in a graphical way. For the special needs of PLC software generation new process elements and attributes are introduced. So the process plan contains the stepwise specialization of all necessary information for a PLC program. This paper additionally presents a specification extending the digital process information with resource-specific PLC function blocks.

Keywords

automobile industry; production engineering computing; production planning; programmable controllers; software engineering; automated PLC software generation; automotive industry; production planning; ramp-up processes; standardized digital process information; Automation; Automotive engineering; Computer industry; Control engineering; IEC standards; Object oriented modeling; Production planning; Programmable control; Unified modeling language; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2007. ETFA. IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Patras

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0825-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0826-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416789

Filename

4416789