Integrated knowledge and simulation-based facility supervision and control

Abstract

This paper presents the concept of integrated knowledge-based and simulation-based supervisory control for process facilities. Linked to a common SCADA system, such knowledge-based decision procedure, which includes process simulation, assists the operator and facility engineer in operating the facility. The functional chain, which begis with operator knowledge acquisition and moves to knowledge and facility modeling and finally to their integration into a real SCADA system, have been implemented and tested for a water treatment and supply plant. Copyright © 2006 International Federation for Information Processing.