A Java/sup TM/-based framework for distributed supervision and control of industrial processes

Provides an image of an ongoing research, within a field that is continually evolving, the distributed control of processes. The objective of this project is to remotely, or even locally, supervise and control an industrial process, providing a framework to integrate the process and its control system in the Internet. This framework will provide, by using objected oriented methodologies, general patterns to implement communication needs and to represent virtual industrial processes, which will be mapped to the real world, and its control. As a result, the control and monitoring of any industrial process will be attainable with independence of its physical location, as expected from a client-server architecture. This framework is based on Java/sup TM/, which is becoming an emerging technology in the Internet as well as in the industrial field.