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Development of an internet and fuzzy based control system of manufacturing process

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The aim of this work is to develop an Internet and fuzzy based control and data acquisition system for an industrial process plant which can ensure remote running and fuzzy control of a cement factory. Cases studies of the proposed system application in three cement factories in Algeria, SCAEK (Setif), SCIMAT (Batna), and SCT (Tebessa), are discussed. The remote process control consists of alarms generated during running of the processes while maintaining and synchronizing different regulation loops thus ensuring automatic running of processes smoothly. In addition, fuzzy control of the kiln and the other two mills ensures that the system is operational at all times with minimal downtime. The process control system contains different operator station (OP), alarms table and a provision to monitor trends analysis. The operator can execute any operation according to his authorised access assigned by the system administrator using user administration tool. The Internet technology is used for human security by avoiding all times presence of operators at site for maintenance. Further, in case of a breakdown, the problem would be remotely diagnosed and resolved avoiding requirement of an expert on site thus eliminating traveling cost, security risks, visa formalities, etc. These trips are difficult to organize (costs, visas, risks). So the enterprise can reduce downtimes and travel costs. In order to realize a process control system guided by operators in the main control room or through Internet, the process control is based on programming in PCS 7 utilizing Cemat library and Fuzzy Control++ Siemens tools.

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Acknowledgement

Hanane Zermane would like to take this opportunity to express her profound gratitude and deep regard for professor H. Mouss, for her exemplary guidance, valuable feedback and constant encouragement throughout the duration of the project. Her valuable suggestions were of immense help throughout my project work. Her perceptive criticism kept me working to conduct this project in a much better way. Working under professor H. Mouss was an extremely knowledgeable experience for her.

This project would have been impossible without the support of the operators of cement factories, SCIMAT, SCAEK. The authors would also like to give their sincere gratitude to all the friends and colleagues who filled in the survey, without which this research would be incomplete.

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    Hanane Zermane & Hayet Mouss

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Hanane Zermane received the B. Sc. degree in computer science from University of Batna, Algeria in 2003 and 2011. She is currently a Ph. D. degree candidate in industrial engineering in University of Batna, Algeria. She has published journal and conference papers.

Her research interests include manufacturing, simulation, manufacturing, automation, process control, fuzzy logic and expert systems.

Hayet Mouss received the B. Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the National Polytechnic School of Algiers, Algeria in 1979, the M. Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the ENSERB, France in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering, Bordeaux University, France in 1985. After graduation, she joined the University of Batna, Algeria, where she is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. She is a member of New York Science Academy. She is the head of Automatic and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory.

Her research interests include industrial diagnosis of production system using the artificial intelligence techniques.

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Zermane, H., Mouss, H. Development of an internet and fuzzy based control system of manufacturing process. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 14, 706–718 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-016-1027-x

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