COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF PROCEDURAL PROCESS CONTROL SOFTWARE

In the paper a model-based automated approach to procedural process control software is presented. A domain-specific modelling language specialised for analysis and design of procedural process control software is described. A formal description of the language syntax is necessary in order to define a mapping function from models to programme code. Furthermore, a software modelling tool is described that supports editing of software models and automatic source code generation for programmable logic controllers as well as automatic documentation generation.