System Structure
Hardware
The Zinc Coating Control System consist of two HW-components:
Control Engine
Control Engine is a standard modular SW package containing all important control items.
Customer specific items in the Zinc Coating Control System are the following:
Different coating lines, coating materials and base materials behave differently. Coating lines can change their behavior during the time. The leading idea in the Zinc Coating Control System is the enhancing of the Control Engine auto tuning functionalities instead of tuning the system for a specific line. This leads to a robust control system.
Communication
Zinc Coating Control System communicates to other parties over TCP/IP.
The following diagram shows the network overview layout:
The Zinc Coating Control System consist of two HW-components:
- Controller CPU, ZCC, located in electrical room
- Visualization Thin Client, ZCV, located in operator pulpit
Control Engine
Control Engine is a standard modular SW package containing all important control items.
Customer specific items in the Zinc Coating Control System are the following:
- communication
- coating materials
- air knife structure
- selection of functions
- line parameters
Different coating lines, coating materials and base materials behave differently. Coating lines can change their behavior during the time. The leading idea in the Zinc Coating Control System is the enhancing of the Control Engine auto tuning functionalities instead of tuning the system for a specific line. This leads to a robust control system.
Communication
Zinc Coating Control System communicates to other parties over TCP/IP.
The following diagram shows the network overview layout: