Generative function block design and composition
Uwe Ryssel, Joern Ploennigs, Klaus Kabitzsch · 2006
The design of large and complex distributed automation systems bases nowadays in many aspects on function blocks and prefabricated devices. These modular concepts of reuse probably reduce the design time and other automation composition concepts have to improve the speed further. But nearly each project contains special purpose applications, which still require a lot of time to develop new solution or adopt existing ones. This paper introduces a design concept spanning both worlds to take advantage of automatic function block composition and the fast design of special purpose devices. It uses a generative method and generic libraries specially adopted to the interoperability requirements of automation systems.