Completed Projects
During the last years, a large number of research projects were successfully completed. These generates new impulses for further research.
Modularization and Package Unit Integration
Modularization and Package Unit Integration
Today, package units are used to supply the plant with input and auxiliary materials or to assemble end products and are usually supplied with their own automation system with predefined functions and behavior. The integration of such a package in a superior control system involves large manual efforts. One main aspect of the integration of package units is the ability to transfer descriptions of sequence controls of the package unit for visualization and manual intervention.
In this project, potentials and limits of current and perspective technologies (e.g. FDI) for a simplified integration of package units into a process control system were analyzed and prototypically implemented by using the example of the integration of a process control system.
SIMATIC PCS 7 University Modules
Siemens Automation Cooperates with Education (SCE) offers more than 100 free didactically prepared training materials for initial training in automation and drive technology - tailored to studies and optimally usable in combination with the available trainer packages.
Training documents for SIMATIC PCS 7 were still missing and therefore a suitable concept for the use at universities should be created.
SCE knowledge platform
Siemens Automation Cooperates with Education (SCE) offers mothen than 100 free didactically prepared teachings materials for the initial training on the subject of automation and drive technology - adapted to curricula and study plans and optimally usable in combination with the purchasable trainer packages.
With the TIA portal and the new S7-1500 controllers, these were to be checked once again for their didactic concept and optimized.
The aim of this project is therefore to create a modern didactic concept for the teaching materials of SCE and to realize the first modules with it.
FDI Usability Style Guide
In this project, the Chair of Process Control Engineering supported the FDI Usability Style Guide Team in analyzing the current status of field device integration, identifying the need for action, formulating suggestions for improvement, and in the design and evaluation of the style guide by usability experts.
Explorative investigation of app-based plant diagnosis with mobile information systems
Explorative Untersuchung der App-basierten Anlagendiagnose mit mobilen Informationssystemen
Within the scope of this project, the potential of an app-based system diagnosis with mobile information systems was explanatively investigated. For this purpose, the work tasks and usage contexts of the plant diagnosis were analyzed in detail, priority tasks identified and suitable scenarios derived.
For the three exemplary tasks of monitoring, diagnosis and therapy, an integrated mobile information system was conceived, designed and prototypically realized, which can obtain information from the digital system via a wireless network connection and visualize it on site.
Based on these results, a focus group workshop with representatives from different industrial sectors identified and elaborated novel services in the field of plant diagnostics.