Development of Industrial Control System project for handling goods stored in a finished goods warehouse of bulk goods producers

Abstract

Nowadays in the Russian Federation, automation of the main production unit along with additional mechanized side lines is very typical for non-food producers of bulk goods built in the USSR. This pattern is usually supported by outdated mechanical equipment in the side lines that requires manual control of processes. Therefore, the situation when the finished goods warehouse is the weak spot of the enterprise is very common. It may reduce the overall productive efficiency, increase manufacturing costs and decrease the main economic indicators of the entire enterprise. The article studies currently important development of a project of an automated control system for the process of handling goods in the finished goods warehouse (Industrial Control System for Handling Finished Goods), integrated into the centralized enterprise control system on the basis of a single information space. The paper is focused on the standard structure of a finished goods warehouse where the finished goods are reloaded into a temporary storage of bunker type. Standard scheme for installation of the operational units' sensors is also considered as well as some issues of operational unit manual control management and common technological constraints. Key project objectives are formulated. A typical standalone operator task is formulated for the Industrial Control System for Handling Finished Goods. At the end of the article, a model for organizing the Industrial Control System for Handling Finished Goods algorithm into conceptual units is proposed.