Container Based Distributed Simulation for Temperature Control in Textile Dyeing Processes

An average textile dyehouse is composed of 40 dyeing machines, whereby the processes in each of the machines are controlled simultaneously. One of the main control engineering problems of such processes is the temperature control where the temperature of the dye liquid is controlled in a desired manner to achieve right first time dyeing. To be able to analyse control behaviours of the machines and monitor how they affect each other, a container-based distributed simulation environment is created. This environment helps us not only to simulate the temperature control behaviour of the dyeing machines with different characteristics but also to develop and apply new control algorithms in a fast and secure manner.