A RFID-based Intelligent Control Framework for Plant Production

In this paper, we put forward an intelligent control framework for plant production. The main contributions include three aspects: Fisrtly, we introduce and adopt Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology as a means to acquire the manufacturing information in real time produced by the bottom-level manufacturing devices. Secondly, we develop the pcPML (plant control with Physical Markup Language) and utilize it to act as a media to realize the information visualized description and transmission between the top-level control systems and bottom-level manufacturing sites of plants. Thirdly, we adopt Java Web technology and wireless LAN to build the infrostructure for the intelligent control framework for plant production. Some key enabling technologies for the intelligent control framework also are presented and described following with some concluding remarks.