Development of Dual System Technology for PC based control system at the steel plant

This paper describes the dual system technology of PC based control system at steel plant. Because PC is developed to be used in wide area such as Office Automation, Personal, It is cheaper and more portable than the present process control system, but is less stable and less reliable. In this research, We gathered the fault example of a general process control system and steel process control system, analyzed the cause of fault and decided the target fault that took over in our proposed system. The proposed PC based system is the dual system that has a shared RAID system connected by SCSI bus between two systems. In order to assist system reliability, we proposed watchdog manager to monitor ...