SICODI: a configurable real-time distributed control system

Distributed control systems (DCS) have been, in the last years, the focus of some proposed and de facto standardizations. The paper describes the configuration aspects of continuous and discrete event control in a DCS implementation called SICODI, and the degree of integration between them. The communication properties when SICODI takes part in a training simulator are presented, and the communication level between the local control units (LCU) of the DCS and their main concepts are outlined. Finally, the monitoring configuration is described and some conclusions and future work pointed out.