Conception and design of the discrete manufacturing processes control station

This paper describes the concept of operation and organization of the automated discrete manufacturing processes control station, which is designed for research and teaching purposes. Station allows carrying simulated manufacturing process in the system consisting of machines, storage and transport system. The control system enables scheduling and routing of manufacturing processes, control over flow of single parts or groups of parts through machines, setting operating parameters of machines, fault and breakdowns simulation, acquisition of data on production process and analysis of system performance in SCADA and MES software.