UML-based approach for the Re-engineering of PLC programs

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3691-3696

  Younis, Mohammed Bani ^a   Frey, Georg ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; REENGINEERING; RHENIUM; TECHNOLOGY; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE; XML;

ANNUAL CONFERENCE; MODULAR STRUCTURES; PLC PROGRAMS; STATE DIAGRAMS; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS; UML-BASED APPROACH;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

EID: 50249129516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2006.347292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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