UNICOS establishes...

• A well defined set of standard device types (objects), both in the control and supervision layers, modeling most of the equipment and needs of continuous processes.
• The relationships between them
• A formalized way of :
  • Define the control units of a process  (best practises inspired in the ISA-88 standard: Batch processes)
  • Programming the specific process logic for those units

UNICOS not only a bunch of devices...

• DEVELOPMENT: Provides the developer with tools to produce rapid control applications. Automatic generation of code.
• COMMISSIONING: Allows early plant commissioning, reducing check tasks to the instruments and electrical level (cabling). Access to devices without SCADA development.
• OPERATION:
  • Provides the operator a standard way to interact all the objects
  • Navigation capabilities between panels and trends: WWW browser-like, contextual buttons, pop-up navigation
  • Process Alarms and Event list
  • Access Control
• DIAGNOSTICS: Tools to diagnose problems (process alarms, Infrastructure: control components,¿)
• MAINTENANCE: Allows optimized code evolution and maintenance by a reduced development team

UNICOS methodology

• Specifications creation
  • Instances: data captured by filling EXCEL (XML) worksheets. (Eventually these specifications may be created also automatically (e.g. DB oriented))
  • Functional Analysis + Logic specification: Word templates
• Automatic generation (UAB: UNICOS Application Builder)
  • Instance generation
  • Standard Logic generation
• Manual intervention
  • Process logic coded by the control engineer in an standardized way. Some applications may create automatically the logic based on templates.
  • Process synoptics: drag & drop
• Support
  • Documentation
  • Tutorials