Towards collaborative plant control using a distributed information and interaction space

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Abstract

As Smart Manufacturing, Industrial Internet, Industrie 4.0, and Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS) are becoming reality, the way process and manufacturing plants are operated has to change. Additionally, these developments - constituting the pervasive digitalisation of industry - have a profound effect on the way human workers and machines interact. This paper contrasts the current state of the art in plant control with a vision for the future. The scenario is illustrated by a realistic problem-solving process in a chemical plant. It describes an integrated industrial information and interaction space that leverages emerging technologies to enable plant operators to remain in control of future flexible modularised process plants. Our approach shows the advantages of an integrated information space which feeds interaction and collaboration using Virtual Reality (VR), novel display technologies and mobile devices.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2015 IEEE 20th Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (electronic)9781467379298
Publication statusPublished - 19 Oct 2015
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA
Volume2015-October
ISSN1946-0740

Conference

Title2015 20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
Abbreviated titleETFA 2015
Conference number20
Duration8 - 11 September 2015
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
CityLuxembourg City
CountryLuxembourg

External IDs

Scopus 84952926613
ORCID /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/159171490
ORCID /0000-0001-5165-4459/work/159171820

Keywords

Keywords

  • Chemicals, Collaboration, Maintenance engineering, Manufacturing, Mobile handsets, Navigation, Workstations