SURVEY PAPER ON MANUFACTURING PLANT CONTROL CHALLENGES AND ISSUES

Enterprise-control system integration between business systems, manufacturing execution systems and shop-floor process-control systems remains a key issue for facilitating the deployment of plant-wide information-control systems for practical e-Business-to-Manufacturing industry-led issues. This achievement of the Integration-in-Manufacturing paradigm based on centralized/distributed hardware/software automation architectures is shifting by the Intelligence-in-Manufacturing paradigm addressed by the IMS industry-led R&D initiative in order to define and to experiment the next generation of manufacturing systems capable to cope with the high degree of complexity of meeting agility over flexibility and reactivity in customized manufacturing. This survey paper of the TC 5.1 summarizes these key problems, trends and accomplishments for manufacturing plant control before to emphasize for practical purposes some rationales and forecasts in deploying automation over networks, HMS and its related agent-based technology, as well as in applying formal methods to ensure dependable manufacturing.