March 30, 2020

Functional Levels of a manufacturing control operation

SCADA system has the facility to handle different levels in the manufacturing plant. 


Level 0:-Level 0 contains the field devices in the plant such as flow and temperature sensors, and final control elements, such as control valves, final control elements.

Level 1:- Level 1 contains the controller’s industrialized input/output (I/O) modules, and their associated distributed electronic processors.

Level 2:-Level 2 contains the supervisory computers, which collect information from processor nodes on the system, and provide the operator control screens.

Level 3:- Level 3 is the production control level, which does not directly control the process, but is concerned with monitoring production and targets.

Level 4:- Level 4 is the production scheduling level.