ANTECEDENTS AND GOALS
GENIA is born to join and strengthen several lecturer's efforts
worried about Automation teaching aspects. By the end of 1996
this investigation team produced two softwares: Prosimax:
"Industrial Process Simulator" and Mediss:
"Secuencial Automatism Design" and one hardware, Simdih-1:
"Simulator and Trainer to Help with Automatism Debugging and Design".
These products come to fill in the teachers needs as well as the
Engineer Companies that develop general automation projects.
University of Oviedo in collaboration with Siemens S.A. deliver and commercialize these products
since then. Secondary Schools, Universities, Unemployment offices, Private Schools, Engineer Companies are
the main receptors of our products.
An important effort has been made to the stabilization of the team and
to increase the number of equipment and software applications
in the automation environment, reaching the three main components
of any automated system:operative component made up of
I/O interfaces, pre-actuators, actuators and sensors; control
component that comprises controllers: PLC's, microcontrollers,
digital regulators, industrial computers, etc. and the supervision
and exploitation component of the system.
Our current goal is to achieve the whole integration of all these components, applications and
equipment. Doing so you would be able to develop all aspects of an automation project, from the control
program, the debugging of that program to the supervision of the process, in a very flexible way and
from within the same environment. That integration must turn round the communication of signal values among
applications over a heterogeneous (office and/or industrial) network.
