Industrial CACSD for the plant design process

CACSD has become a standard design tool for control experts in industry and university. Nevertheless, a broad application by field engineers in industry is still missing. The paper describes the components of the ICACSD (Industrial CACSD) scheme developed since 1996 to provide industrial engineers with CACSD tools adapted to their knowledge background and industrial control design tasks. Today the ICACSD system comprises Matlab toolboxes for industrial process identification (ICAI) and control design (ICAC), the expert system based module Model^ing for the qualitative modeling of process dynamics and the ModelCAT module which automatically generates process models from P&I diagrams in process CAE systems making use of simulation models from component catalogues. An application example demonstrates the interaction of Model^CAT, ICAI and ICAC for the computer aided control design at an industrial production process.