EP2691822A1 - Procédé de gestion de commande d'automatisation de processus et système associé - Google Patents

Procédé de gestion de commande d'automatisation de processus et système associé

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EP2691822A1
EP2691822A1 EP12711198.7A EP12711198A EP2691822A1 EP 2691822 A1 EP2691822 A1 EP 2691822A1 EP 12711198 A EP12711198 A EP 12711198A EP 2691822 A1 EP2691822 A1 EP 2691822A1
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Hervé SABOT
Valérie PERRIER
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General Electric Technology GmbH
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B19/00—Programme-control systems
    • G05B19/02—Programme-control systems electric
    • G05B19/04—Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers
    • G05B19/042—Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
    • G05B19/0426—Programming the control sequence
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B19/00—Programme-control systems
    • G05B19/02—Programme-control systems electric
    • G05B19/418—Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]
    • G05B19/4185—Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM] characterised by the network communication
    • G05B19/4186—Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM] characterised by the network communication by protocol, e.g. MAP, TOP
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L41/00—Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
    • H04L41/02—Standardisation; Integration
    • H04L41/0213—Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
    • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
    • G05B2219/23—Pc programming
    • G05B2219/23255—Object oriented programming, OOP
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
    • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
    • G05B2219/23—Pc programming
    • G05B2219/23258—GUI graphical user interface, icon, function bloc editor, labview
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
    • G05B2219/30—Nc systems
    • G05B2219/32—Operator till task planning
    • G05B2219/32142—Define device, module description using xml format file
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02P—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
    • Y02P90/00—Enabling technologies with a potential contribution to greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions mitigation
    • Y02P90/02—Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

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  • the present invention relates to the field of industrial automation systems and more particularly to the managing of process automation control in a plant.
  • Process automation control refers to the use of automatic actuation and control systems to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods or services.
  • the implementation of such a tool to a plant's scale requires means to establish communications between the different entities in order to transfer commands and data and to achieve a global supervision of the plant.
  • the present invention refers to a method for matching elements of a first protocol or standard with elements of a second protocol or standard in a process automation control planning of a plant wherein the elements of the first protocol or standard refer to input/output objects of logical nodes established according to an IEC 61850 protocol and wherein the elements of the second protocol or standard refer to input/output arguments of control programs established according to an IEC 61131-3 standard, said control programs being aimed at driving actuation equipments associated to the logical nodes, said method comprising the following steps:
  • the embodiments of the present invention also refers to a method for managing process automation control in a plant, the said plant comprising:
  • IED intelligent electronic devices
  • said method comprises the following steps:
  • said input/output arguments corresponds to the input/output objects of the logical nodes and are aimed at being used in the control programs of the actuation equipments associated to the said logical nodes,
  • the said method also comprises the step of:
  • the step of defining control programs of the actuation equipments is achieved using function block diagrams.
  • the step of defining control programs of the actuation equipments is achieved using structured texts. According to another embodiment, the step of defining control programs of the actuation equipments is achieved using sequential function charts.
  • the step of configuring logical nodes comprises a step of checking the conformity of the created logical nodes to the standard defined in the protocol IEC 61850.
  • the embodiments of the present invention also refers to a system for establishing a matching of elements of a first protocol or standard with elements of a second protocol or standard in a process automation control planning of a plant, the said plant comprising:
  • the said system comprises:
  • - configuration means for configuring logical nodes associated to the actuation equipments, based on predefined classes of logical nodes established according to the protocol IEC 61850 in order to define the input/output objects used by said logical nodes,
  • the embodiments of the present invention also refers to a system for managing process automation control in a plant, the said plant comprising:
  • a plurality of intelligent electronic devices comprising a controller and at least one actuation equipment controlled by said controller
  • said system comprises:
  • - processing means adapted to:
  • control programs according to the IEC 61131-3 standard and using the created input/output arguments, said control programs being aimed at driving the actuation equipments,
  • the said system comprises implementing means for loading the control softwares generated by the application means in the intelligent electronic devices.
  • the said system comprises generation means for generating a database comprising the description of the configuration established by the processing means and the application means.
  • FIG.l shows a chart representing the data objects of a logical node class
  • FIG.2 shows a chart representing the data object of a logical node established based on the logical node class defined in Fig.l;
  • FIG.3 shows a diagram of the logical structure of a plant with the different logical levels
  • FIG.4 shows an example of program of a function block
  • FIG.5 shows an example of a representation of a function block with its input/ output arguments
  • FIG.6 shows a flowchart of the different steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention
  • FIG.7 shows a diagram representing the main steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention and their implementation
  • IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
  • FED refers to the acronym Intelligent Electrical Device (IED);
  • the embodiments of the present invention refer notably to a method for matching elements of a first protocol or standard for example an IEC 61850 protocol and elements of a second protocol or standard for example an IEC 61131-3 standard in the planning of a process automation control in a plant and means to establish the said matching.
  • the IEC 61850 protocol defines the constraints for the design of communications between electrical equipments, called Intelligent Electrical Devices (IEDs), in a plant.
  • IEDs Intelligent Electrical Devices
  • the plant is defined as a hierarchy of logical entities, the basic entity being the logical node which corresponds to a real entity, that is to say, a driving actuation equipment of the plant, for example a pump or an engine.
  • the IEC 61850 allows to define parameters for communication services such as reporting, data transfer and process commands used in the different logical entities.
  • the logical entities are created based on predefined classes of logical entities defining data objects processed by said entities. Said classes of logical entities are defined in the IEC 61850 protocol.
  • Fig.l refers to a chart representing an example of a logical node class named PMP class. This chart comprises four columns.
  • first column 100 corresponds the data object name of the class and comprises several categories of data objects or input/output objects of the logical node: description 101, status information 102, measured and metered values 103, controls 104 and settings 105 referring to standardized parameters which can be exchanged with other logical entities.
  • Each category comprises one or several data objects.
  • a second column 110 corresponds to the common data class and refers to the reference of the common data class to which the data object is associated.
  • a third column 120 corresponds to the explanation or description of the data object.
  • a fourth column 130 corresponds to a selection of the data objects of the class to configure a customized logical node.
  • the necessary data objects are selected to obtain the desired logical node by ticking off the desired data objects in the last column of the KPMP class diagram in Fig.l .
  • a logical node derived from the standard KPMP class and comprising the desired input/output objects is obtained as presented in Fig.2.
  • Some categories of the class may not be represented if no data object of this category has been selected.
  • a global logical mapping of the plant can therefore be established by defining the logical entities corresponding to the actuation equipments of the plant, said logical mapping allowing to define the communication parameters that are required between the different equipments.
  • Fig-3 shows an example of hierarchy of the different levels of a logical mapping from the plant 1 to the logical nodes 3, comprising also logical devices 5 which gather several logical nodes 3.
  • IEDs intelligent electrical devices
  • the IEC 61131-3 standard established a normalization in the languages of the control programs used in programmable controllers controlled by the IEDs. Said standard gathers different programming languages such as structured texts, function block diagrams or sequential function charts.
  • arguments are used to define the input and output parameters of the program.
  • Said arguments refer for example to control or setting values and correspond to data objects defined in the logical nodes.
  • arguments corresponding to the data objects of the logical nodes and aimed at being used in the programming languages used in programmable controllers are automatically created based on the IEC 61131-3 standard.
  • a matching of said arguments with the corresponding data objects is achieved so that the definition of the parameters used in both the IEC 61850 protocol and the IEC 61131-3 standard is done only once and take into account the requirements of both protocol or standard.
  • a definition of the commands of the programmable controller is achieved using the created arguments.
  • a common application is used to define on one side the logical entities and their associated objects and on the other side the commands for the programmable controllers associated with logical entities.
  • the input arguments 7 are used to define the actuation commands of the equipments using the processing blocks 11.
  • an input argument may correspond to the control value of a valve position in the actuation equipment corresponding to the logical node previously defined.
  • the structured text or function block programs define the processing to apply to said arguments in order to actuate the corresponding equipments and reach the desired process automation control.
  • the output argument 9 in Fig.4 is for example the value or the status of a parameter such as the rotational speed of a pump.
  • Fig.5 represents an example of a function block 13 associated to a logical node such as presented in Fig.2 where the input 7 and output 9 arguments of the function block 13 correspond to data objects of the associated logical node.
  • the input argument Health_status of the function block corresponds to a value of the data object EEHealth of the logical node Pmpl of the logical device PresOil.
  • the input 7 and output 9 arguments corresponding to the other data objects of the logical node are implemented in the function block 13.
  • the embodiments of the present invention allow to gather the interfaces corresponding to the configuration of the parameters defined in the IEC 61850 protocol and the parameters defined in the IEC 61131-3 standard and to create a matching between the corresponding elements.
  • the first step 101 refers to the configuration of the logical nodes. Based on predefined classes or types of logical nodes provided in the IEC 61850 protocol, a configuration of the logical nodes corresponding to the selection of the desired input and output objects is achieved. Said first step also refers to the definition of the other logical entities such as the logical devices to define a global logical structure or hierarchy of the plant, the logical nodes corresponding to the basic stage of said logical structure and corresponding to actuation equipments of the plant. Furthermore, a checking of the conformity of the configured logical nodes to the specifications of the IEC 61850 protocol is done during step 101.
  • the second step 102 refers to the creation of input and output arguments corresponding to the input and output objects configured in the previous step. Said input and output arguments being used in control programs aimed at actuating the equipments corresponding to the logical nodes. Said creation of arguments is realized in taking into account the specifications of the IEC 61131-3 standard.
  • the third step 103 refers to the establishment of a matching between the created input and output arguments and the configured input and output objects. With the establishment of the said matching, a modification of the value of an object of a logical node produces the modification of the value of the corresponding argument.
  • the fourth step 104 refers to the definition of the control programs used to actuate equipments.
  • Said control programs define the different tasks of the actuation equipments. As described previously, the programming languages may be different from one equipment to another but all respect the specifications of the IEC 61131-3 standard.
  • Said control programs use the input and output arguments created at step 102 which correspond to control or setting values for example for the input arguments and to metric or status values for example for the output arguments.
  • the fifth step 105 refers to the configuration of the intelligent electronic devices by generating control softwares comprising the control programs and communication configuration established in the previous steps. Said softwares are loaded in the IEDs in order to implement the process defined in the previous steps and to lead to a process automation control of the plant.
  • the sixth step 106 corresponds to the generation or the update of a database comprising the description of the configuration of the IEDs which is based on the process automation control modelled in the previous steps.
  • an embodiment of the invention refers to the saving of all the parameters modelled during the planning of the process automation control. Indeed, the plant structure or needs may evolve over time so that the configuration of the process automation control has to be modified to take into account this evolution so that the application provides new softwares and updates files at each modification. The database is therefore updated at each modification of the configuration of the process automation control.
  • a modification of the configuration of some equipments may occur in case of the implementation of an IED corresponding to an air pollution control system linked to many other equipments or IEDs.
  • Such modification induces the implementation of new communications between the newly installed IED and the other entities of the plant and therefore requires to reconfigure many parameters of the process automation control of the plant. Thanks to the embodiments of the method described herein, such reconfiguration is achieved by defining new logical nodes and redefining the configuration of the existing logical nodes needed to be reconfigured to take into account the presence of the new logical nodes, for example the addition of a new data object.
  • a step 201 corresponding to the configuration of the application defining the logical entities and associated commands and the compilation of the said applications
  • the embodiments of the present invention by matching corresponding elements defined in different protocols or standards allow to ease the planning at a logical level and the implementation at the equipment level of a process automation control in a plant. Moreover, the management of the implementation of the said process automation control is facilitated by the creation and the update of a database comprising a description of the equipments configuration.

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La présente invention porte sur un procédé pour mettre en correspondance des éléments d'un premier protocole ou d'une première norme avec des éléments d'un second protocole ou d'une seconde norme dans une planification de commande d'automatisation de processus d'une usine, les éléments du premier protocole ou de la première norme se rapportant à des objets d'entrée/sortie de nœuds logiques (3) établis selon un protocole IEC 61850 et les éléments du second protocole ou de la seconde norme se rapportant à des arguments d'entrée (7)/sortie (9) de programmes de commande établis selon une norme IEC 61131-3, lesdits programmes de commande étant destinés à commander des équipements d'actionnement associés aux nœuds logiques (3), ledit procédé comprenant les étapes suivantes consistant à : configurer des nœuds logiques (3) sur la base de classes prédéfinies de nœuds logiques (3) établies selon le protocole IEC 61850 de façon à définir les objets d'entrée/sortie utilisés par lesdits nœuds logiques (3), créer des arguments d'entrée (7)/sortie (9) de programmes de commande correspondant aux objets d'entrée/sortie des nœuds logiques (3), établir une correspondance lesdits arguments d'entrée (7)/sortie (9) et lesdits objets d'entrée/sortie.
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