Hybrid Commissioning - from simulated to real production plants

Dr Sven Dominka

Senior Research Fellow, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University

Date and time: 11.30 - 12.30, Friday 20th March, 2009

Venue: 10.08.04 (Building 10, Level 8, Room 4)

Abstract:

The commissioning of complex mechatronical industrial systems like production plants is a critical phase and takes a high percentage of the overall engineering process. The malfunction of the plant, e.g. due to controller software bugs, could lead to damage of the plant. ‘Hybrid Commissioning’ is a new approach for reducing the danger of such damages and the waste of production during the commissioning phase. Hybrid Commissioning starts with a simulation of the complete plant. During the process of Hybrid Commissioning, the components of the simulated plant are then substituted stepwise by their real counterparts. Especially for field bus driven production plants, this kind of parallel operation poses a challenge. A supporting tool system with a specific architecture is therefore necessary. In order to combine signal values of real and simulated components within this architecture in a useful way, a so called Merge Tool has been developed. In this seminar, the Hybrid Commissioning method and the Merge Tool is introduced and an example on the basis of a PROFIBUS DP driven production plants is given.

About the speaker:

Sven was born in Germany. He obtained Bachelor and Master degrees from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Information Technology in Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich. His research area during this time was quality assurance of embedded and mechatronical systems. Herein, he focussed on the modelling and simulation in the automotive area and of production plants. His PhD thesis was about the commissioning of production plants. At present he is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT.

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