Abstract
With the development of industrial automation, our industrial manufacturing facilities and environment have been fully changed. Decision-making automation and integration of all activities in a product life-cycle are the development direction of future manufacturing systems. Currently, computer-integrated manufacturing systems (CIMS) have been widely accepted by researchers and engineers in discrete manufacturing industries. However, very few papers begin to discuss how to implement the CIMS strategy for continuous manufacturing industries. In this paper, computer-integrated process systems (CIPS) for continuous manufacturing industries are discussed. First we discuss the need to develop computer integrated process systems. Then we identify real problems existing in continuous manufacturing industries. We discuss the distinctions between CIMS in discrete manufacturing industry and CIPS in continuous manufacturing industry, and analyse the CIPS characteristics. The concept of the meta-system is presented, and the prototype of the IDIP (Integrated Distributed Intelligent Platform) based on the meta-system is introduced. Finally, we present several on-going research projects to illustrate how to implement CIMS in continuous manufacturing processes.
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