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Requirements for a General-Purpose Visual Programming Language for Discrete-Part Industrial Automation

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In the early 1980s, the Smalltalk project at the Xerox PARC [1] introduced the use of visual computer-human interfaces such as windows, icons and menus. The interest in visual computer-human interfaces has also been supported by the continued proliferation of visual-interface-equipped computer workstations and microcomputers. One outgrowth of this visual interface technology has been the introduction of numerous visual programming languages.

This chapter is based on “GRAFCET and SFC as factory automation standards: advantages and limitations” by A.D. Baker, T.L. Johnson, D.I. Kerpelman and H.A. Sutherland, which first appeared in the Proceedings of the 1987 American control conference, Minneapolis, June 1987, pp 1725–30. © 1987 IEEE.

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  1. School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver, V5A 1S6, British Columbia, Canada

    William A. Gruver PhD, MSEE, DIC, BSEE

  2. Center for Manufacturing Engineering, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 20899, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    J. C. Boudreaux PhD, BA

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Baker, A.D., Johnson, T.L., Sutherland, H.A., Kerpelman, D.I. (1993). Requirements for a General-Purpose Visual Programming Language for Discrete-Part Industrial Automation. In: Gruver, W.A., Boudreaux, J.C. (eds) Intelligent Manufacturing:. Advanced Manufacturing Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2023-0_6

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