I think you and your teacher have two different definitions of web-based research. Your teacher thinks you should Google for information, actually read the information you find, and use what you learn to formulate another set of questions which you then put to Google.
You seem to think that web-based research entails finding somebody else to do your work for you.
Since you claim to have already written your LogixPro program to control the operation, why not add another subroutine to that program to simulate the operation of the process?