#12 2009

Buryak Yu.I. Continuous performance monitoring of industrial products as a key to their safe delivery and operation

Ensuring the safety of industrial products delivery at various levels from physical parameters inspection during products transportation from vendors to users up to limited access to the information about products, vendors, and users is an integrated task of product delivery provision. An information system architecture for continuous lifecycle monitoring with a case study of aircraft components is offered. The featured properties of the system are shown such as unified product description, using diverse machine-treatable information media and toolkits for its recording both in manual and automatic modes. Composition and functionality of system`s software and some hardware components are outlined.
Keywords: performance monitoring, data acquisition and preprocessing, managerial decision-making support, information bank, product lifecycle, RF sensors.

Rotach V.Ya., Kuzischin V.F., Petrov S.V. Algorithms and programs for PI and PID settings computation based on transient responses

The paper discusses the examples of computer programs for calculating PI and PID controller settings per control system`s transient responses without analytical approximations. The possibility of downloading such programs from the Web is shown.
Keywords: PID controller, optimal controller settings, transient response, frequency response, optimality criterion.

Yakovis L.M., Sporyagin K.V. Controller calculation for inertial objects with delays

A versatile and easy-to-use calculation technique for standard controllers of inertial objects with delays is presented. The technique enables to choose controller settings based on various control performance criteria.
Keywords: standard controllers, sluggishness, delay, simulation.

Milov V.R., Suslov B.A., Kryukov O.V. Adding intelligence to managerial solutions support in gas industry

The problems of informating-controlling systems design for gas industry enterprises are discussed. An approach to hybrid intelligent decision-making support system design is offered.
Keywords: decision-making support systems, hybrid intelligent systems, knowledge, neuron networks.

Pupena A.N., Yel`perin I.V. Cable system planning and installation for industrial networks

Design and operation of control systems with multi-vendor industrial and computer networks requires a unified approach to planning, installation, and administration of cable systems. The paper discusses new IEC standards from Industrial communication networks group intended for solving the problem of communication systems inoperability at an automation cell with heterogeneous equipment. The focus is made on cable systems planning and design for industrial networks.
Keywords: standard, industrial networks, protocol, interface.

Discussing a Subject…
Industrial automation specialists: yesterday, today, tomorrow…
Introduction

Kharazov V.G. On improving education quality for industrial automation

Educational problems related with control, measurement, and IT engineers training are discussed.
Keywords: self-education, engineer, training procedures, scientific research, information sources.

Bazhanov V.L. Strange destruction: without global wars or cataclysm

The challenges of Russian higher education system are named. The important role of the government in creating the environment enabling to overcome them is emphasized. An approach to high-quality training of industrial automation specialists in the current circumstances is described.
Keywords: higher education system, Russian National Exam, purpose-oriented training courses, professional development.

Round table. On industrial automation specialist training: challenges and the ways to surmount them

The situation in the labor-market is examined; an attempt to investigate the causes of the lack of qualified engineers is made. The merits and drawbacks of the present day education including the paid one are formulated, the ways to withstand the negative situation in industrial automation engineers training are outlined.
Keywords: higher education system, teachers board, Russian National Exam, professional development, performance indicators, material resources of technical universities, Internet, partnership programs.

Yegorova A.A., Akchurin M.R. Development lines of automation of personnel management and motivation

The problems of further automation of plant personnel management and motivation processes are discussed. Within a unified personnel management system, the paper offers work results evaluation methods and staff motivation systems.
Keywords: personnel management process automation, personnel motivation, evaluation methods.

Industrial automation specialists training

Dozortsev V.M., Kneller D.V., Sorkin L.R., Shestakov N.V. New approaches to education and training of industrial automation specialists. Part 1. Real-time advanced solutions

Engineering and effective operation of advanced industrial automation solutions requires purposefully educated and trained developers, implementers, and support engineers. Today, Russian technical universities are not able to ensure the desirable level of such graduates. The paper offers the ways to surmount this educational challenge through partial reorganization of senior students education (establishment of base chairs) and the introduction of innovative educational technologies, such as a "Virtual Plant" concept. The first part discusses the training of specialists for real-time advanced solutions: advanced process control and industrial simulation-based systems (operator training simulators, etc.). The forthcoming second part will focus on specialists training for MES.
Keywords: advanced solutions of industrial automation, real time, advanced process control (APC), simulation.

Journal`s Club

Fetisov A.V. The advent of new generation pressure sensors is inevitable

The paper shows that the application of lever and membrane strain-gage transducers with SOS structure typical for most of Russian pressure sensors does not ensure the stability of sensor characteristics during in process environment. The design of a measuring unit based on a capacitor cell implemented in Metran-150 pressure gage is described.
Keywords: lever and membrane strain-gage transducers, pressure sensor, capacitor cell.

Events

Martinov G.M., Martinova L.I. The analysis of numerical control systems presented at Metal-processing Technoforum 2009 International Exhibition, their novelty and features

Numerical control systems presented at Metal-processing Technoforum 2009 International Exhibition are analyzed, their key capabilities and evolution are discussed. Applications of such systems both from domestic and foreign vendors are systematized, an attempt to forecast their future development is made.
Keywords: numerical control, nanointerpolation, spline interpolation, pre-inspection algorithm, high-speed processing, blocks compression, logical analyzer, remote control, 3D modeling, artificial intelligence, CAD/CAM systems, OPC, circle test.

Nikulina I.V. Simulation: present day theory and practice

IV All-Russian scientific and Practical Conference on Simulation Theory and Applications (IMMOD-2009) is overviewed, its topics are described.
Keywords: simulation, training systems, simulation languages.