Automation of Industrial Serial Processes Based on Finite State Machines

An automation solution based on finite state machine (FSM) for a flow measurement testing unit is proposed. This FSM was able to automate not only the execution of one test but the whole sequence of tests. Commercial software and hardware tools were employed. As a result an unattended, continuous, high productivity and low cost operation was achieved. This solution can be applied to automate other serial and batch processes.