Module H: Industrial Informatics

Modelling of information, production and logistic systems. Continuous, hybrid and discrete-event models. Unified modelling language (UML).

Discrete-event simulation. Random variables and random processes, queueing systems. Discrete-event simulation implementation strategies and interpretation of results. Discrete-event simulation software. Visualization in animation in simulation. Production and logistic system simulation examples.

Complex control systems. Programmable controllers in industrial automation. Control software development standards, standard programming languages. Modular and object-oriented approaches, model-based design.

Industrial communication networks. Fieldbus networks, industrial Ethernet. Open connectivity and standards.

Process monitoring, supervision and control software. SCADA systems, data collection and analysis software, HMI design and implementation

Databases. Relational data model. Standard query language (SQL). Data modelling. Database management systems.

Basics of industrial informatics, presentation of information infrastructure components for monitoring, supervision and control of technological processes.

Principles of modelling and simulation in the study of information, production and logistic systems.

Development of complex control application software, implementation of process monitoring and supervisory control systems.

Lectures, laboratory exercises.