#1 2017

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Aristova N.I.  Industrial automation: on evolution and revolutions

Zaitseva E.A.  Cabinetless drive systems for food and packaging industries

Food and consumer market features large batches, short lifecycles, high competitiveness, frequent advent of new product models, types, and modifications. This challenges both consumer and machine industries which address their automation solution to such production facilities. State-of-the-art machinery for this segment should be modular, scalable, small-size, highly efficient, and easily integrable to legacy systems. The application of cabinetless servo drive systems is a reasonable answer to this challenge. The related electrical equipment ensures system's size minimization up to complete exclusion of electric equipment cabinet, decentralized control architecture and wide opportunities for equipment enhancement and reconfiguring.

Keywords: cabinetless drive systems, consumer boom, embedded solutions, production lines, decentralized drive system, servo motor, control cabinet.

Rogov S.L.  Reversible drive control devices for DCS

The paper discusses the applications of PBR-TI(TS) smart device for controlling reversible drives used in process controls of various industries. It lists the device's key performance data and showcases its key technical and economic benefits.

Keywords: production automation concept, automation system requirements, automation system efficiency, automation system implementation, automation system operation.

Itskovich E.L.  Production automation works: what plant managers should know

The deployment of plant automation systems in Russian processing industries demonstrates several negative features caused by top management's low-skilled approaches both to overall site automation and to the development of plant-floor automation systems. The paper offers the ways to overcome these challenges.

Keywords: production automation concept, automation system requirements, automation system efficiency, automation system implementation, automation system operation.

Balashov S.M., Logunov P.L., Petukhov M.Yu.  Building a unified information space for refinery's operations and marketing management based on an integrated APS/MES system

The paper discusses the interaction of refinery's APS/MES-level systems and offers approaches to the development of a unified information space for effective planning, managing and accounting the operations, supplies, and marketing. A multifunctional integrated planning, scheduling, and accounting system is implemented based on a refinery's universal model.

Keywords: production management systems, APS, MES, oil refining.

Discussing a Topic…

Automation of agriculture, food and packaging industries

Gokhman V.V.  Geoinformation technologies for farming: risk minimization

The paper shows that geoinformation technologies allow farmers to analyze and understand all key factors affecting the harvest and soil fertility, improve farming stability and productivity. It presents case studies demonstrating GIS applications in a wine-making company, a farm cooperative, and a national program implemented by Irish government.

Keywords: GIS, farming, precision agriculture, maps, cloud applications.

Leus A.V.  Virtual reality for agroindustrial complex

The paper presents the features and capabilities of the two solutions implemented by KROK's specialists for agroindustrial complex on the basis of virtual and augmented reality technologies. DeLaval Smart Milk Farm holographic virtual mockup and DeLaval Augmented Reality mobile AR application were implemented for demonstrating the capabilities of DeLaval's products.

Keywords: virtual reality, augmented reality, dairy farming, hologram, 3D, mobile application, virtual reality glasses.

Goncharov N.T., Izmailov A.Yu., Khoroshenkov V.K., Smirnov I.G., Afonina I.I., Luzhnova E.S., Alexeev I.S., Lonin S.E.  Key application areas for robots in Russian agriculture

Key challenges faced by Russian developers of machine and tractor aggregates are formulated. Development lines for robotic complexes within precision agriculture technology are outlined.

Keywords: machine and tractor aggregate, navigation systems, robotization, automation.

Gavrilenko A.P.  Automation tools in lighting systems

Artificial lighting is significant for plant growing under cover. The paper discusses greenhouse lighting, in particular in Far North. It presents state-of-the-art lighting systems based on AC direct LED feed technology.
Keywords: automation, lighting systems, reliability, operation, LED lamp, supplementary illumination, greenhouse lighting, photosynthesis.

Application of unmanned aerial vehicles for precision agriculture

Kolchanov S.Yu.  Modernization of a dairy's production cell: a case study

The paper describes the automation system operated at the Entresol section of Manros-M LLC dairy plant. It lists the issues justifying the modernization and outlines the design solutions implemented during production cell migration to the new control system.

Keywords: process control system, modernization, dairy, controllers, remote control.

Boyarkin N.D.  Automation of a poultry complex

Pobeda-Agro battery farm based in the Russian Bryansk Region has employed OWEN equipment to modernize automate the ventilation system, mini boiler room's controls, weigh batching line, and water supply control system. The paper presents block diagrams of automation systems for those facilities.

Keywords: battery farm, modernization, automation, PLC, control system.

Babushkina L.M., Baron A.Yu.  Panel computers: capabilities, features, application areas

The paper presents the most interesting state-of-the-art panel computer models from the leading Russian and foreign vendors and discusses their application in various industries.

Keywords: panel computers, machine vision systems, food industry, transportation, agriculture, sanitary standards, operation conditions.

Pokrovskaya V.V.  COGNEX machine vision and industrial identification systems on food industry

The paper presents performance data and features of COGNEX In-Sight 2000 and In-Sight 2000 Color Series vision sensors as well as COGNEX DataMan 262X industrial stationary ID code readers. Their application areas in food and packaging industries are outlined.

Keywords: vision sensor, machine vision, identification system, ID code readers.

Mikheev A.G., Pyatetsky V.E.  Changing runtime business process objects in enterprise's business process management system

Enterprises running their business processes in software environment are often challenged by the need in changing business process objects during their execution. The paper offers an approach allowing to overcome the challenge. Its application is illustrated with a case study of business processes in Sosensky Equipment Building Factory, a branch enterprise of the Academician Pilyugin Scientific-Production Center of Automatics and Instrument-Making.

Keywords: process approach to enterprise management, business process management systems, business process, business process object.

Bazhanov V.L.  Reference system library for loop tuning by scaling technique

The paper expounds the role of reference control system library for determining PID controller settings by means of scaling technique in closed-loop control. It formulates recommendations on the optimization of library's components and reference system data. An effective variant of the library is offered, its structure and usage guidelines are included.

Keywords: scaling technique, reference control systems, control objects, ramp, PID controller settings, transients, instrumental software tools.

Journal's Club

Kharazov A.G. The 185^th anniversary of Ivan Vyshnegradsky, the founder of automatic control theory

Ivan Vyshnegradsky is a famous Russian scientist; his life and activity were tightly related with Saint Petersburg State University of Technology. The paper lists Vyshnegradsky's key scientific works and achievements with the focus on the automatic control theory.

Keywords: automatic control theory, regulatory controller, stability threshold, transients.