PLC symbol naming rule for auto generation of Plant model in PLC simulation
Hyeong-Tae Park, Gi-Nam Wang, Sang-Chul Park · Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation · 2008
Proposed in the paper is an automated procedure to construct a plant model for PLC simulation. Since PLC programs only contain the control logic without the information on the plant model, it is necessary to build the corresponding plant model to perform simulation. Conventionally, a plant model for PLC simulation has been constructed manually, and it requires much efforts as well as the in-depth knowledge of simulation. As a remedy for the problem, we propose an automated procedure to generate a plant model from the symbol table of a PLC program. To do so, we propose a naming rule for PLC symbols so that the symbol names include enough information on the plant model. By analyzing such symbol names, we extract a plant model automatically. The proposed methodology has been implemented, and test runs were made.