A Process for Identifying and Modeling Relevant System Context for the Reconfiguration of Automated Systems

Caesar, Birte; Valdezate, Alejandro; Ladiges, Jan; Capilla, Rafael; Fay, Alexander

doi:10.1109/tase.2023.3291394

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“…To identify a reconfiguration need, operators define beforehand what the reconfiguration triggers are to consider. Reconfiguration triggers can be determined with the help of a context analysis procedure, as published in [43]. Whereas the context represents the specific environment and application scenario the RMS will be used in.…”

Section: A Reconfiguration Trigger Analyzermentioning

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Digital Twin Framework for Reconfiguration Management: Concept & Evaluation

Caesar,

Barton,

Tilbury

et al. 2023

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To remain competitive in a highly dynamic environment, manufacturing companies have to quickly react to disturbances or changing customer requirements. To enable manufacturing systems to cover these dynamics, the concept of reconfigurable manufacturing systems was introduced. From a technical point of view, this concept has been exploited for the past 20 years, revealing several different design solutions. However, industrial application is still an exception. Our analysis led to the assumption that this is due to a lack of operator support for reconfiguration management. In addition, mostly individual aspects of reconfiguration are considered instead of exploiting the entire reconfiguration space at the system and machine level. Therefore, in this paper, we present a digital twin framework for reconfiguration management considering reconfiguration as a holistic problem. We evaluate the framework by conducting a case study and challenging it by evaluating the completeness based on a systematic literature review, and analyze if it follows good practice based on 32 requirements for digital twin frameworks.

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Section: A Reconfiguration Trigger Analyzermentioning

confidence: 99%