Industrial Projects

Interface board for a SCADA system used by the chemical industry

  • ifp is contracted by Invensys-Foxboro (Stuttgart) to develop an interface board used by a SCADA system for the chemical industry. The board is designed to operate dual redundantly to grant a high availability of the chemical production processes. Hot Plug & Play capability without any failure of the hardware is required. The board provides a profibus and some Invensys specific E/A bus. An AMCC Power PC 440 GX is used as CPU. The operating system will be Linux together with the real time extension Xenomai. As development environment an Eclipse based solution for the Power PC is used.

    Invensys
    Invensys


Development of a Project Tool for CAN Applications

  • ifp develops a Microsoft .NET based project tool for the simulation of a set of CAN modules. Starting point is a xml-file upon which the tool will operate and will generate an xml project file by means of xsl based rules. Additional project files will become generated to assure the downward compatibility. Visual C#.NET will be used as IDE. XML and XSL files will be linked together by means of the DOM (Document Object Model). A graphical front end allows to manipulate the project data.

    mtu Friedrichshafen.
    mtu Friedrichshafen

Load Torque Limitation System for Lifting Equipment

  • ifp developed the software for a load torque limitation system to control lifting equipments and avoid overloading by structural analysis. In case of overload the lifting equipment (e.g.crane) must stop at some secure position. The system becomes developed according to IEC 61508. The Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)achieves a Safety Integration Level of 3 (SIL 3). The overloading parameters (load, angle, cantilever beam extension) are repesented by a set of tables building enveloping surfaces. The movement of the lifting equipment must take place inside of this envelope. Further dynamical parameters (velocity, accelleration etc.) will be used for the structural analysis. The system consists out of some base module the software part of which will be deleloped by ifp, an operating facility with integrated display, some key switch and signal horn. The display is connected by cable using the RS 232 (485) protocol. The base module hardware is developed by SET - Smart embedded Technologies, Wangen i.A.
    EBM Brosa Tettnang. EBM Brosa / Tettnang

Porting of CAN Functions

  • ifp is contracted by MTU Friedrichshafen to port CAN functions of a CAN controller under Windows 3.1 onto a National Instruments controller under Windows 2000. The development platform is Visual Studio 6.

    mtu Friedrichshafen.
    mtu-Friedrichshafen

MVB Bus Interface

  • ifp realises the data transfer between the controls of the aircondition systems of a high speed train by means of the MVB (Multifunction Vehicle Bus) interface under psos.

    Liebherr Aerospace, Lindenberg.
    Liebherr Aerospace (Lindenberg)

CANopen Protocol Porting

  • ifp is going to port the CANopen protocol on to the MC68376 (TOUCAN) as ordered by Liebherr Aerospace / Lindenberg (Germany). As IDE the TASKING 68xxx Compiler für Windows NT 4.0 as well as the CrossView Pro Debugger is used. The targetsystem is the MicroC/OS-II real time kernel. The sources are obtained from Vector Informatik GmbH, Stuttgart.

    Liebherr Aerospace, Lindenberg.
    Liebherr Aerospace (Lindenberg)

Control of Aircondition Devices

  • ifp develops parts of the software for the control of the aircondition devices for the german Intercity Express as well as for the british train "Class 442". The software is realised in C under the realtime operation system psos.

    Liebherr Aerospace, Lindenberg.
    Liebherr Aerospace (Lindenberg)

Interactive Lottery Terminals

  • ifp implements the software for interactive Lottery terminals under Windows NT for the swiss lottery corporations of central and western Swizerland. The software becomes implemented in C++ with Microsoft Visual Studio 6 als development environment.

    Wincor Nixdorf.
    Wincor Nixdorf (Constance)

Actuators for the paper industry

  • One current ifp project deserves particular attention, since we are not only responsible for the development and supply of the software under QNX 4.25, but for the control hardware as well. In co-operation with Voith Paper, we have developed an intelligent stepper motor controller, ISS, for the control of actuators. A CPU board based on AMD processor technology as well as a peripheral board with the appropriate sensors serves to monitor for irregularities in the paper webs as they are produced. The CPU board ISS 1.2 is conceived as an embedded WEB server. The CPU board, at 40 x 150 mm, enables the visualisation of measurement, control and regulation data - if necessary worldwide - thanks to the integrated WEB server, able to work in every network environment imaginable.

    PEC The board is predestined for use in, for example:

    • Embedded controllers in measurement, control and regulation applications
    • Operational data recording
    • Handheld applications
    • Medicinal technology
    • Sensory/actuary applications

    Thanks to our specialised Ethernet technology, it is possible to integrate a firewall into the system without problem. One can describe the ISS 1.2 as a building block for new worlds.

    Voith Paper.
    Voith Paper

Simulation of a monitoring interface

  • Development of a monitoring interface between a monitoring computer and an electronic controller, supervision and regulation unit for the supervision of engines. Sensor values defined and stored in a real-time database are transferred both on demand as well as cyclically. The monitoring interface was developed as a DLL in Visual C++ using STL and MFCs.

    mtu Friedrichshafen.
    mtu-Friedrichshafen

Security Gate

  • Collaboration in the development of a security gate based on COTS products in the context of a secure mailing system part of the X.400 protocol series. Implementation of new concepts for the display of security loopholes in tool based on SNMP.

    atm Computer, Konstanz.
    ATM Computer GmbH, Constance

Simulation and training facilities

  • Multiple-processor technology, from spread real-time database for the simulation of ships to drive units.
    br> mtu Friedrichshafen.
    mtu-Friedrichshafen

Process management technology

  • From order management to control of units such as lathes, turning stations etc. In flexible manufacturing units.
    GrundigNumeric GmbH
  • Process management technology for sheet metal processing manufacturing units with the tool 'FactoryLink'
    C. Behrens AG

Measurement technology

  • Real-time measurement recording and evaluation for automatic adjustment of car doors in bodywork. RdA/BMW

Warehouse technology

  • Logistical analysis for throughput optimisation in block and high-stacking warehouses. Linkup with Informix database.
    Hugo Fritschi AG

Graphical user interfaces

  • Software emulators for graphical terminals under X11-OSF/Motif
    Tektronix/Maho
  • Visualisation of flexible manufacturing units over a service network that can be accessed by users as well as control processes.
    Gildemeister AG
  • Development of graphical user interfaces based on incr Tcl for system and subscriber management of a bleeper system.
    ATM Computer GmbH

Avionics

  • System analysis, implementation, testing and documentation of functions such as error routing, BITE and military reconnaissance services in the onboard computers of the Airbus A320 and MRCA Tornado.

    Litef GmbH, Freiburg i. Br.
    Litef GmbH, Freiburg
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