ICALEPCS2011 - List of Authors (Fernandez Adiego, B.)

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Model Oriented Application Generation for Industrial Control Systems

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B. Copy, R. Barillère, E. Blanco Vinuela, R.N. Fernandes, B. Fernández Adiego, I. Prieto Barreiro
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The CERN Unified Industrial Control Systems framework (UNICOS) is a software generation methodology that standardizes the design of slow process control applications [1]. A Software Factory, named the UNICOS Application Builder (UAB) [2], was introduced to provide a stable metamodel, a set of platform-independent models and platform-specific configurations against which code and configuration generation plugins can be written. Such plugins currently target PLC programming environments (Schneider UNITY and SIEMENS Step7 PLCs) as well as SIEMENS WinCC Open Architecture SCADA (previously known as ETM PVSS) but are being expanded to cover more and more aspects of process control systems. We present what constitutes the UAB metamodel and the models in use, how these models can be used to capture knowledge about industrial control systems and how this knowledge can be leveraged to generate both code and configuration for a variety of target usages.
[1] H. Milcent et al, "UNICOS: AN OPEN FRAMEWORK", ICALEPCS2009, Kobe, Japan, (THD003)
[2] M. Dutour, "Software factory techniques applied to Process Control at CERN", ICALEPCS 2007, Knoxville Tennessee, USA

Slides WEAAULT02 [1.757 MB]

WEPKS006

UNICOS Evolution: CPC Version 6

786

E. Blanco Vinuela, J.M. Beckers, B. Bradu, Ph. Durand, B. Fernández Adiego, S. Izquierdo Rosas, A. Merezhin, J.O. Ortola Vidal, J. Rochez, D. Willeman
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The UNICOS (UNified Industrial Control System) framework was created back in 1998, since then a noticeable number of applications in different domains have used this framework to develop process control applications. Furthermore the UNICOS framework has been formalized and their supervision layer has been reused in other kinds of applications (e.g. monitoring or supervisory tasks) where a control layer is not necessarily UNICOS oriented. The process control package has been reformulated as the UNICOS CPC package (Continuous Process Control) and a reengineering process has been followed. These noticeable changes were motivated by many factors as (1) being able to upgrade to the new more performance IT technologies in the automatic code generation, (2) being flexible enough to create new additional device types to cope with other needs (e.g. Vacuum or Cooling and Ventilation applications) without major impact on the framework or the PLC code baselines and (3) enhance the framework with new functionalities (e.g. recipes). This publication addresses the motivation, changes, new functionalities and results obtained. It introduces in an overall view the technologies used and changes followed, emphasizing what has been gained for the developer and the final user. Finally some of the new domains where UNICOS CPC has been used will be illustrated.

Poster WEPKS006 [0.449 MB]

WEPKS033

UNICOS CPC6: Automated Code Generation for Process Control Applications

871

B. Fernández Adiego, E. Blanco Vinuela, I. Prieto Barreiro
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Continuous Process Control package (CPC) is one of the components of the CERN Unified Industrial Control System framework (UNICOS). As a part of this framework, UNICOS-CPC provides a well defined library of device types, a methodology and a set of tools to design and implement industrial control applications. The new CPC version uses the software factory UNICOS Application Builder (UAB) to develop the CPC applications. The CPC component is composed of several platform oriented plug-ins (PLCs and SCADA) describing the structure and the format of the generated code. It uses a resource package where both, the library of device types and the generated file syntax are defined. The UAB core is the generic part of this software, it discovers and calls dynamically the different plug-ins and provides the required common services. In this paper the UNICOS CPC6 package is presented. It is composed of several plug-ins: the Instance generator and the Logic generator for both, Siemens and Schneider PLCs, the SCADA generator (based on PVSS) and the CPC wizard as a dedicated Plug-in created to provide the user a friendly GUI. A management tool called UAB bootstrap will administer the different CPC component versions and all the dependencies between the CPC resource packages and the components. This tool guides the control system developer to install and launch the different CPC component versions.

Poster WEPKS033 [0.730 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
WEAAULT02	Model Oriented Application Generation for Industrial Control Systems	610
	B. Copy, R. Barillère, E. Blanco Vinuela, R.N. Fernandes, B. Fernández Adiego, I. Prieto Barreiro CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The CERN Unified Industrial Control Systems framework (UNICOS) is a software generation methodology that standardizes the design of slow process control applications [1]. A Software Factory, named the UNICOS Application Builder (UAB) [2], was introduced to provide a stable metamodel, a set of platform-independent models and platform-specific configurations against which code and configuration generation plugins can be written. Such plugins currently target PLC programming environments (Schneider UNITY and SIEMENS Step7 PLCs) as well as SIEMENS WinCC Open Architecture SCADA (previously known as ETM PVSS) but are being expanded to cover more and more aspects of process control systems. We present what constitutes the UAB metamodel and the models in use, how these models can be used to capture knowledge about industrial control systems and how this knowledge can be leveraged to generate both code and configuration for a variety of target usages. [1] H. Milcent et al, "UNICOS: AN OPEN FRAMEWORK", ICALEPCS2009, Kobe, Japan, (THD003) [2] M. Dutour, "Software factory techniques applied to Process Control at CERN", ICALEPCS 2007, Knoxville Tennessee, USA
	Slides WEAAULT02 [1.757 MB]

WEPKS006	UNICOS Evolution: CPC Version 6	786
	E. Blanco Vinuela, J.M. Beckers, B. Bradu, Ph. Durand, B. Fernández Adiego, S. Izquierdo Rosas, A. Merezhin, J.O. Ortola Vidal, J. Rochez, D. Willeman CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The UNICOS (UNified Industrial Control System) framework was created back in 1998, since then a noticeable number of applications in different domains have used this framework to develop process control applications. Furthermore the UNICOS framework has been formalized and their supervision layer has been reused in other kinds of applications (e.g. monitoring or supervisory tasks) where a control layer is not necessarily UNICOS oriented. The process control package has been reformulated as the UNICOS CPC package (Continuous Process Control) and a reengineering process has been followed. These noticeable changes were motivated by many factors as (1) being able to upgrade to the new more performance IT technologies in the automatic code generation, (2) being flexible enough to create new additional device types to cope with other needs (e.g. Vacuum or Cooling and Ventilation applications) without major impact on the framework or the PLC code baselines and (3) enhance the framework with new functionalities (e.g. recipes). This publication addresses the motivation, changes, new functionalities and results obtained. It introduces in an overall view the technologies used and changes followed, emphasizing what has been gained for the developer and the final user. Finally some of the new domains where UNICOS CPC has been used will be illustrated.
	Poster WEPKS006 [0.449 MB]

WEPKS033	UNICOS CPC6: Automated Code Generation for Process Control Applications	871
	B. Fernández Adiego, E. Blanco Vinuela, I. Prieto Barreiro CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Continuous Process Control package (CPC) is one of the components of the CERN Unified Industrial Control System framework (UNICOS). As a part of this framework, UNICOS-CPC provides a well defined library of device types, a methodology and a set of tools to design and implement industrial control applications. The new CPC version uses the software factory UNICOS Application Builder (UAB) to develop the CPC applications. The CPC component is composed of several platform oriented plug-ins (PLCs and SCADA) describing the structure and the format of the generated code. It uses a resource package where both, the library of device types and the generated file syntax are defined. The UAB core is the generic part of this software, it discovers and calls dynamically the different plug-ins and provides the required common services. In this paper the UNICOS CPC6 package is presented. It is composed of several plug-ins: the Instance generator and the Logic generator for both, Siemens and Schneider PLCs, the SCADA generator (based on PVSS) and the CPC wizard as a dedicated Plug-in created to provide the user a friendly GUI. A management tool called UAB bootstrap will administer the different CPC component versions and all the dependencies between the CPC resource packages and the components. This tool guides the control system developer to install and launch the different CPC component versions.
	Poster WEPKS033 [0.730 MB]