Luis Carlos Costa Fonseca, Alan Robert da Silva Ribeiro and Jonh Selmo de Souza do Nascimento, State University of Maranhao, Brazil

Industrial Shop Floor environments require fast intervention of the controller’s computers and operators to ensure high industrial production efficiency. This work focuses the electrolytic potrooms process control efficiency. The main goal of this work is to design an embedded solution for detection and alarm, using multi-agents system technologies so that controllers can alert plant operators about the problems in the electrolytic pot still malfunctioning after controller intervention. If the controller action was unsuccessful due to a feeder and pot bus problem, an audio alarm is immediately issued to the potrooms so that the operator can be notified about the specific problem, independently of the pot rooms location.

Alarm, Potrooms, Agents, Embedded Systems, Pot