November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
556 pages
14h 42m
English
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Control and measurement systems
A more rigorous definition of what a process control and data acquisition system is has been provided by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)-61131 standard. According to this standard, a control and measurement system of an industrial process can be described as a set of interconnected devices communicating with each other by means of one or more communication networks, as shown in the following diagram:
The control and measurement system model
The communication networks might be also structured hierarchically:
- Functionality performed by a system can be modeled as an application that may reside ...