Migration of industrial process control systems into service oriented architecture

Jerker Delsing, Fredrik Rosenqvist, Oscar Carlsson, Armando Walter Colombo, Thomas Bangemann

2012 · 53 citations · 8 references

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The paper identifies challenges associated with migrating SCADA and DCS functionality to a service‑based automation architecture. The paper discusses the procedure for migrating SCADA and DCS functionality from ISA‑95 to a service‑based automation architecture and proposes the necessary migration technology and procedures. The migration is implemented using a mediator concept and a four‑step functionality‑based procedure—initiation, configuration, data processing, and control execution. The authors argue that these four steps are essential for successfully migrating DCS and SCADA functionality into the automation cloud.

Abstract

The procedure of migrating SCADA and DCS functionality of the ISA-95 process automation architecture to a Service based automation architecture is discussed. Challenges in such migration are discussed and defined. From here the necessary migration technology and procedures are proposed. The critical migration technology is based on the mediator concept. The migration procedure is based on a functionality perspective and comprises four steps: initiation, configuration, data processing and control execution. Its argued that these steps are necessary for the successful migration of DCS and SCADA functionality in to the automation cloud.

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