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Modular Production System (Festo MPS)
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The modular production system incorporates several flexible automation concepts generally found in the area of manufacturing systems and used in modern production facilities. These include distributed design of the underlying control system and interaction of several sub-processes that require coordination among them.
The system is divided into five partially independent working stations: distribution of workpieces, testing, processing, handling and storage. Every station is built up of industrial sensing and actuating elements and controlled by a programmable logic controller (Mitsubishi A series). For the purpose of coordination among stations the controllers are connected to a communication network. This enables them to share a set of register addresses and exchange necessary information. Two of the PLCs are equipped with communication modules that enable information interchange between the system and a PC with FactoryLink supervisory control and data acquisition software.
The system is used for teaching basic PLC programming techniques, as well as in research oriented toward discrete event systems, supervisory control and coordination.
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