Design of integrated scheduling and automated controlling for surface treatment process using Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

This paper aims to design a model of integrated scheduling and automated controlling for a surface treatment process in an aircraft manufacturing company, where in this case aircraft parts are dyed into chemical liquid to be corrosion-proof. In the existing plant, parts dyeing processes (moving the crane and monitoring the tanks temperature) are done manually. Integrated scheduling and automation control system is proposed to improve planning, control and safety issues in the dyeing process. The scheduling system is developed using fuzzy logic algorithm to minimize makespan and the automation system is designed based on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA). A case study has shown that the simulation of proposed model can result in reducing makespan of about 51,3 % and the schedule can be implemented automatically in the surface treatment prototype.