GRAPHICS-ORIENTED EXPERT SHELL FOR THE DESIGN AND CONFIGURATION OF DISTRIBUTED CONTROL-SYSTEMS

The paper describes the concept and architecture of GOES (Graphics-Ori ented Expert Shell) - an expert system shell built inside a standard C AD environment. The system is intended to associate logical engineerin g design procedures with graphical representations, and is particularl y useful for managing and documenting large-scale control and automati on design activity. The expert-system structure of the software allows GOES to operate as an intelligent CASE tool, and eases the task of id entifying, assembling, and parametrizing function block subroutines of distributed control systems.