A CORBA-based architecture for strategic process control

摘要

Strategic decision-making in complex continuous process plants has been a matter for humans since ever. Automated decision support systems are built to help human operators in making reliable, fast and economically advantageous decisions. In many cases, however, the construction of these systems is very complex due to the needs of integrating heterogeneous information sources or knowledge sources. This paper introduces the topic of strategic process control and gives an example of such an application in the cement sector built atop the integrated control architecture (ICa).