VIEnCoD ― PROPOSAL OF A CACSD ENVIRONMENT INTEGRATED TO AN ERP SYSTEM AS A TOOL IN THE CONTROLLERS DEVELOPMENT

摘要

This paper presents the proposal of an CACSD (Computer-Aided Control System Design) environment integrated with an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, aimed to the study, design and optimization of controllers for the most varied shop floor plants or industrial processes. More specific optimization, control and supervision methods to the the company are very important and necessary at the shop floor level. In this level, the motivation on integrate the machines and production cells to the higher hierarchical levels of the company appears in most expressive way. The VIEnCoD (Virtual Instrumentation - based Integrated Environment for Controllers Design) assist such objectives giving integral support to the whole Control System Development Cycle, from the phase of Identification and Modelling of the plant to the controller's Synthesis.