2COMMUNICATION IN PROCESS CONTROL

Abstract: For further improvements in the field of supervisory and process control it is necessary not only to have a physical but also a logical uniform infrastructure for access to the broad range of product and process information. Up to now, no uniform information infrastructure has been established for the purposes of process control engineering. The advance in vertical network integration in enterprises provides at least the infrastructure for combining the various information partners into one "Process Control Engineering Internet". The open communication system ACPLT/KS with a structured and easily useable application layer built upon the wideley accepted protocols of the Internet is presented. Copyright © 1998 IFA