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The past 3 decades are characterized by the introduction of digital tools in the manufacturing sector, and by the advent of mechatronics being used for repetitive and fast material handling within logistics. Retrospectively this time is referred as the 3 rd Industrial Revolution. Presently, the cyber-physical systems and cyber-physical production systems are being referenced as substituents of the 4 th Industrial Revolution. The Authors have selected some outstanding episodes within this transition time to highlight the Hungarian successful achievements developed and implemented by talented researchers and innovative ideas by far-looking professors. The article also offers elements of visions for technology development, focusing on the new results of robotics and on biotransformation in manufacturing.

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Abstract:The European research project INT-MANUS embedded in the I*PROMS European network of excellence addresses the increasing demand for flexibility and adaptivity, which is summarized by rapid reconfigurations of complete factories as well as related aspects in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Software, and Production Systems. The project's main goal is to develop a new technology for the production plants of the future, the Smart Connected Control Platform (SCCP). This platform allows controlling a factory with the help of an open distributed learning agent platform that integrates machines, robots, and human personnel.

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The ESPRITframework within the EC had given a chance for a European consortium to develop a model for the new generation of Open Controls, that could be used for adwnced manufacturing environment. The OSACA consortium (the name OSACA stanh for: Open System Architecture for Controls within Automation Systems) had developed the methodology and the technology to build such open controllersWithin the 4ihframework, the EC has launched a continuation project, named IDASOSACA, to help the dissemination process for the results achieved previously by the consortium. The presentation in this article is to give a summary on the external (superior and inferior) communication means applied with the OSACA controllers. The authors, as present project partners within IDAS-OS4CA, have prepared this article based on their review on the former OSACA project deliverables.

The European research project INT-MANUS embedded in the I*PROMS European network of excellence addresses the increasing demand for flexibility and adaptivity, which is summarised by rapid reconfiguration of complete factories, flexible reaction to new demands as well as related aspects in human computer interaction (HCI), software, and production systems. The project's main goal has been to develop a new technology for the production plants of the future: the Smart Connected Control Platform (SCCP). This platform allows controlling a factory with the help of an open distributed and learning agent platform that integrates machines, robots, and human personnel. It offers an enterprise service bus like concept for dynamic and decentrally controlled production systems, which flexibly connects machines and IT systems like robotic transport systems, terminals, mobile control systems, etc