A toolkit for computerized operating procedure of complex industrial systems with IVI-COM technology

ZHOU Yangping¹, YE Jingliang², DONG Yujie³, HUANG Xiaojing⁴, and YOSHIKAWA Hidekazu⁵

1. Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Energy Science Building, Haidian District,     
    Beijing 100084, China (zhouyp@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)
2. China Ship Study and Design Centre, Wuhan 430064, Hubei, China (yejinliang222@163.com)
3. Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Energy Science Building, Haidian District, Beijing
    100084, China (dongyj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)
4. Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Energy Science Building, Haidian District, Beijing
    100084, China (huangxj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)
5. Kyoto University/Harbin Engineering University, Nantong Street, Nangang District, Harbin 150001, China
    (yosikawa@kib.biglobe.ne.jp)

Abstract: A human interface toolkit is proposed to help the user develop computerized operating procedure of complex industrial system such as Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). Coupled with a friendly graphical interface, this integrated tool includes a database, a procedure editor and a procedure executor. A three layer hierarchy is adopted to express the complexity of operating procedure, which includes mission, process and node. There are 10 kinds of node: entrance, exit, hint, manual input, detector, actuator, data treatment, branch, judgment and plug-in. The computerized operating procedure will sense and actuate the actual industrial systems with the interface based on IVI-COM (Interchangeable Virtual Instrumentation-Component Object Model) technology. A prototype system of this human interface toolkit has been applied to develop a simple computerized operating procedure for a simulated NPP.
Keyword: computerized operating procedure; complex industrial system; IVI-COM; human interface toolkit