SCADA/HMI Systems in Advanced Educational Courses

• Published in: 2005 IEEE Instrumentationand Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings Vol. 2; pp. 1097 - 1101
• Main Authors: Adamo, F., Attivissimo, F., Cavone, G., Giaquinto, N.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.02.2007
• Subjects: Data engineering; Education; Industrial electronics; Industrial plants; Instruments; Laboratories; Programmable control; Resistance heating; SCADA systems; Simulation software; Software tools; Supervisory control; Valves
• ISBN: 9780780388796; 0780388798
• ISSN: 1091-5281
• DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2005.1604312

This work gives a detailed description of some laboratory practices about SCADA/HMI systems developed for didactic purposes for various undergraduate courses at the 1st Engineering Faculty of Polytechnic of Bari, Department of Electrics and Electronics (Italy); they consider the use of National Instruments LabVIEWreg with the associated data logging and supervisory control toolset (DSCreg) to develop the SCADA/HMI portion (operator's interface and data logging) of a software simulated industrial plant consisting of a vessel with charge and discharge proportional valves, a heating/cooling element, a level sensor and two flow rate sensors. The control of this plant can be done in two different ways, according to the difficulty level of the practice: by way of a LabVIEW VI or by way of a ladder program written with RSLogix 5/500 and emulated by RSLogix Emulate 5/500 (both are Rockwell Software's products, the first being the ladder software development environment for PLC-5/SLC500 family of industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) from Allen Bradley and the second being the related software emulator).