Teaching to design control applications with coordinated modulating and logic functions

In the literature on control education, a minority of papers concern logic control. Out of this minority, an even smaller one addresses the problem of designing an application composed of both modulating and logic control functions, interacting and coordinating with one another. In the opinion of the authors this is a gap to be filled, as it easily leads to an inefficient use of the available development tools, and sometimes results in cumbersome design and poor maintainability. In this paper we discuss the matter, and propose a compact teaching activity based on the experience gathered along the last years.