University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
June 26-27, 2000
| 10. | Distributed Control (General management of distributed control applications, Open/distributed control -- ethernet-based control) |
| 9. | Theory (No well-developed and accepted theory of discrete event control, in contrast to continuous control) |
| 8. | Languages (None of the programming languages do what we need but nobody wants a new programming language) |
| 7. | Control logic synthesis (automatically) |
| 6. | Standards (Machine-control standards -- every machine is different, Standardizing different types of control logic programming language, Validated standards) |
| 5. | Verification (Standards for validation, Simulation and verification of controllers) |
| 4. | Software (Software re-usability -- cut and paste, Sophisticated software for logic control, User-unfriendly software) |
| 3. | Theory/Practice Gap (Bridging the gap between industry and academia, Gap between commercial software and academic research) |
| 2. | Education (Educating students for various PLCs, Education and keeping current with evolution of new control technologies, Education of engineers in logic control, Lack of curriculum in discrete-event systems) |
| And the number one challenge in logic control for manufacturing systems is... | |
| 1. | Diagnostics (Integrating diagnostic tools in logic control, Standardized methodologies for design, development, and implementation of diagnostics) |