Research and application of the control technology for Flexible Manufacturing System based on PROFIBUS

Traditional military industry can not update the production of weapons and integrate information quickly. Neither can it shorten the production cycle to establish a FMS. In order to solve these problems, this paper attempts to apply fieldbus technology to the flexible manufacturing system (FMS) in military production. To put it concretely, the PROFIBUS-DP technology will be adopted to actualize the fast information exchange between field digital control equipments and the control center at the workshop level so as to promote the capacity of production dispatching and control, realize a closed-loop control for the costs and quality of the manufacturing system, and establish a flexible manufacturing system which is highly efficient and easily integrated. The findings of this research can be widely applied to weapon-manufacturing industry for it can lay a foundation for information-based enterprises, accelerate the research and manufacturing of weapons, and improve the manufacturing ability of our defense industries.