A supervisory control system is used to improve the performance of a conventional industrial plant electrical distribution system. The control system consists of several programmable controllers located throughout a large industrial plant and intercommunicating over leased dedicated telephone lines. Described are the plant power system, supervisory control system functions, programmable controllers' communications scheme, and control programs.
Published in:
Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:IA-16
,
Issue:
6
)
Date of Publication: Nov. 1980