Justin Lane
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- Join Date
- Jun 2002
- Posts
- 3
Senior year has finally arrived and it is time to get cracking on coming up with a "Senior Design Project". The situation is as follows, a group of engineers (3 controls track EE, 1 controls CE) are looking to come up with a project realative to industry. If we go with faculty suggested ideas or projects, we will probably end up using one of the many esoteric control methods we have learned which are not used readily if at all in industry, interfaced through Matlab/Simulink (also not readily used in industrial settings) for control. We would like to learn something from this project that could usable in our future careers if possible, so we are trying to avoid this route.
As far as experience, I have done work on GE Series 90 and AB Control Logix PLC, ABB MOD300 DCS, as well as HMI design in Wonderware and RSView. A couple of the other guys in my group also have experience using AB ControlLogix, GE Series 90, and AB SLC500 PLC. None of us consider ourselves experts by any stretch, but between us all, we should be able to handle the logic/design for whatever the project may be.
For our project we do not have to re-create the wheel, but instead just need a working "system" of some sort. Any number of control applications/problems could be tackled, as long as we have a goal and then meet that goal with a finished "product" of some kind. The time constraints are about 9 months to create the finished project (including an extensive final report, various proposals/budget write-ups, and whatever we may fabricate).
To finally get to the point, we are looking for a contemporary controls related problem/project that we could solve/design using a PLC or another industrial micro-controller. If anyone has any relevant ideas or problems they always were looking to tackle but never had the time, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks alot,
Justin
As far as experience, I have done work on GE Series 90 and AB Control Logix PLC, ABB MOD300 DCS, as well as HMI design in Wonderware and RSView. A couple of the other guys in my group also have experience using AB ControlLogix, GE Series 90, and AB SLC500 PLC. None of us consider ourselves experts by any stretch, but between us all, we should be able to handle the logic/design for whatever the project may be.
For our project we do not have to re-create the wheel, but instead just need a working "system" of some sort. Any number of control applications/problems could be tackled, as long as we have a goal and then meet that goal with a finished "product" of some kind. The time constraints are about 9 months to create the finished project (including an extensive final report, various proposals/budget write-ups, and whatever we may fabricate).
To finally get to the point, we are looking for a contemporary controls related problem/project that we could solve/design using a PLC or another industrial micro-controller. If anyone has any relevant ideas or problems they always were looking to tackle but never had the time, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks alot,
Justin