Standard Technology in Industrial Applications

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Standard Technology in Industrial Applications

• Project STINA
• ABB Mälardalen University
• Västerås, Sweden

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STINA - Common research project

• Cooperation project between ABB and Mälardalen
  University
• ABB Automation Products (ABB/APR)
• ABB Research (ABB/CRC)
• Some other ABB companies
• Financed by ABB and University (via a State
  Foundation)
• Period 5 years - (financed separately each year)
• Project Leader MdH , Assistant Project Leader ABB
  (20 of time)
• Two Ph.D. students (60 of time)
• Several diploma thesis
• Undergraduate and postgraduate courses

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ABB Worldwide

• 30-billion company
• gt 200,000 employees
• 1000 companies
• 100 countries
• Serving customers with products for
• electrical power generation, transmission and
  distribution
• oil, gas and petrochemicals
• industrial automation

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ABB Automation Products

• 340-million company
• gt 2000 employees
• Development centers in
• Sweden, USA and Germany
• Real-time control systems for industrial
  automation

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Mälardalen University (MdH)

• 12 000 Students
• (8000 full time students)
• 15 Institutions

Västerås
Eskilstuna
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Department of Computer Engineering (IDt)

• 2000 full time students
• Real-Time Systems Design Lab
• Computer Architecture Lab
• Computer Science Lab
• Mälardalen Research Center(MRTC)

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STINA Project Organization
Steering Group
ABB/APR ABB/CRCABB/ASY
MdH/IDtMdH/MRTC
Erik Gyllenswärd/ABBChrister Norström/MdH
MdH/IDt - CSL
ABB/APR
Project Group Ivica Crnkovic /MdHMagnus
Larsson/ABBFrank Lüders/ABB-MdH
ABB/SECRCABB/SEASY ABB/DECRC , ABB/CH
Guest Professor - Manchester University Uppsala
university
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The Goals of STINA

• To increase the knowledge about development based
  on standard technologies
• Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE)
• Industrial Process Control Systems
• Increase co-operation between the industry and
  the academics
• Point out to the possibilities of improvements of
  component management

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STINA Research Subjects

• Component-based Software Engineering
• Component-based Development Process
• Demands on the development process using
  components
• Demands on the development process of components
• Component Configuration
• On-line configuration, On-line version management
• Architectural Issues - especially for industrial
  systems
• Internet and WWW, XML, Using standard
  technologies for managing information process
  control systems
• Technologies for using and developing components
• COM/DCOM, Windows 2000, JAVA Beans, CORBA

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STINA - Other areas of interest

• Software Configuration Management
• SCM Process
• SCM and Software Metrics
• CBSE and OOD
• Components and Frameworks
• Case-Base reasoning
• Theory implementation on CBSE
• CBSE and Real-time systems

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What is Component-based Software Engineering?

• Orientation on reusable components independently
  developed
• component development
• system development with reusing components
• Instead of developing everything from scratch,
  build your system from already developed
  components
• Save money and time
• Achieve better quality and reliability
• Improve usability

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Software Engineering Dreams

• How to solve the software crises?
• Software Engineering answers
• Development project models (waterfall,
  incremental development,)
• Development Processes (CMM, ISO-9000, etc.)
• Structural programming
• Object-oriented programming
• Reuse
• etc.
• Is Component-based Software Engineering the
  answer?

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ICSE 1999 - Butler Lampson / Microsoft

• The component dream
• A library of tested, documented components
• To build your system, you take down a couple of
  dozen components and glue them together.

Component Library
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CBSE - Not a silver bullet, but...

• CBD, CBSE - no company can afford not to use it!
  (Lockheed)
• More things will happen in the nearest future
• The technology is far way from being established
  in industry and in research
• CBSE will not solve the software crises, but will
  dramatically improve the development efficiency
  software usage in general.
• The current main problems
• Knowledge - development process, how to build
  components, how to use them
• Standards

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STINA Project Plan

• Phase 1 - build body of knowledge
• Collect information - conferences, literature,
  industrial experience, courses
• Phase 2 - research and prototypes
• Papers and reports
• Graduate thesis, Licentiate Thesis
• Projects in collaboration with ABB
• Phase 3
• Ph.D. Thesis
• A Prototype - develop a process control system
  based on standard components (COTS)

Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
99-05
04
00-05
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STINA Project members

• One senior researcher and two Ph.D. students
• A guest professor from Manchester (10/99-01/00)
• Cooperation with ABB/APR
• Organizational issues, finance
• graduate thesis

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Done so far

• 10 papers published, several in the process...
• Component Configuration Management
• Different aspects of CBSE (development,
  organizational issues, etc.)
• Reusing components (challenges in using them,
  challenges in developing them)
• Several seminars held (CBSE, SCM)
• A Graduate Thesis done (Using XML in Industrial
  Process Control Systems)
• Several Theses in starting phase
• STINA Ph.D. students have indented several courses

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Done so far...

• Component-based Software Engineering Course
• 32 Ph.D. students and industrial practitioners
• Lectures, Seminars with invited speakers,
  workshops
• CBSE - State of the Art report
• Students reports (20 reports)
• Component definitions and classifications
• Component techniques
• Components and Real-time Systems
• Components in mechatronics and robotics
• Component databases - reuse issues

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Planned activities (to 00/Q2)

• Towards a completions of Licentiate thesis 00 -
  Component Configuration
• Start Architectural Styles in Component Based
  Software Engineering
• CBSE seminars for industry (ABB, etc.)
• Finish several papers
• This will be the completion of STINA - 1 (phase
  1) project

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Future plans

• Cooperation with other projects
• ComposeIT
• Cooperation with MDh and CompFab - small company
• Information Systems - organizing and integrating
  different applications and exchanging information
• Similar to ABB architecture with Object aspects,
  but based on standard technology as much as
  possible
• Research Separation of Concerns, Aspect-oriented
  programming, integrability of applications, etc.
• ABB - other projects
• ABB/CDCRC, ABB/SEISY, ABB/CH

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Future plans

• A prototype - Operator Station based on standard
  components, COTS, standard techniques
• Input - result from ComposeIT
• ABB ? - interesting for cooperation
• specification of the systems
• development process definition
• testing
• integration with ABB products
• Licentiate and Ph.D. Thesis
• Component-based Configuration Management
• Component-based architectures for industrial
  systems

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Finally