ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (09/20/90)
Category 6, Topic 10 Message 30 Tue Sep 18, 1990 D.RUFFER [Dennis] at 23:15 EDT Re: rajuk@ee.umr.edu (Raju Khubchandani) > I would like to know if there are any documentary stories about > Forth's application for Industrial controls, such as to > open/close control valves and other actuators based on input data > from sensors, in real-time for process control. FORTH, Inc. is now selling what they call the "Process Event Language" that does precisely what you are talking about. To quote from our sales literature: "The Process Event Language is a fast, real-time, event-driven, high- level control language suitable for virtually any process control application, no matter how simple or complex. This flexible, extensible language uses advanced object-oriented programming techniques, allowing process engineers to autimate an entire production line in only a few weeks." Presently, we have the system running on a 20Mhz 68020 for one of our customers and they seem very pleased with its capabilities. If you are interested, give Mark Carson a call at (213) 372-8493 and he will be glad to send you a whole bunch of literature on it. Mention that you are doing research for your Master's degree and I'm sure he'd be willing to send you as much literature as we have on it. Also, Dean Sanderson gave a paper at the Rochester Forth Conference a couple years back on the same technology. I would suggest looking through as many conference proceedings as you can get your hands on. They will be the best source of information about what people have been doing. DaR ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated process. Report problems to: uunet!willett!dwp or dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us