A Review of Asset Administration Shell

Wei, K. C. John; Sun, Jianzhi; Liu, R. J.

doi:10.1109/ieem44572.2019.8978536

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“…These sub-models comprehensively delineate an asset's pertinent information and functionalities, encompassing its attributes, characteristics, states, operational parameters, measurement data, and intrinsic capabilities [47,55]. AAS significantly enhances systems' monitoring, control, and interoperability by managing specialized data packets.…”

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Integration of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) for Smart Manufacturing: State-of-Art and Future Opportunities

Figueroa,

Pavon,

Calvopiña

et al. 2024

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Industry 4.0 (I4.0) epitomizes the nexus of technological evolution and manufacturing process enhancements, underpinned by four critical pillars: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Digital Twins (DT), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Cloud Computing (CC). Through the lens of the German Reference Architectural Model Industrie (RAMI) 4.0, these components are integral to fostering Smart Manufacturing (SM) practices. In conjunction, the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) facilitates seamless inter-company communication and enables adaptability to fluctuating market demands. This paper delves into the structural intricacies of AAS and SM within the RAMI 4.0 framework, unveiling three distinct implementation strategies. Furthermore, it meticulously scrutinizes challenges that hinder the full realization of I4.0 potential, such as interoperability, security concerns, and standardized communication protocols. By examining these models and identifying current barriers, the study illuminates pathways for future research, particularly in enhancing the integration of AAS and SM systems, ensuring robust security measures, and advocating for the development of universal standards. This exploration aims to contribute to the ongoing discourse on I4.0, proposing avenues for advancing manufacturing technologies and operational frameworks in alignment with the principles of RAMI 4.0.

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Section: Asset Administration Shell Aasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) for Smart Manufacturing: State-of-Art and Future Opportunities

Figueroa,

Pavon,

Calvopiña

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“… Asset Administration Shell (AAS): Industrie 4.0 recommends the asset administration shell (AAS) as an important building block of the Factory of the Future [ 75 , 186 , 230 , 231 ]. Multiple articles in the literature provide reviews on asset administration shells (AAS) [ 232 , 233 ]. The asset administration shell (AAS) is a mechanism for digitally representing physical assets and other abstract entities.…”

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A Primer on the Factories of the Future

Anumbe

Saidy

Harik

2022

Sensors

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In a dynamic and rapidly changing world, customers’ often conflicting demands have continued to evolve, outstripping the ability of the traditional factory to address modern-day production challenges. To fix these challenges, several manufacturing paradigms have been proposed. Some of these have monikers such as the smart factory, intelligent factory, digital factory, and cloud-based factory. Due to a lack of consensus on general nomenclature, the term Factory of the Future (or Future Factory) has been used in this paper as a collective euphemism for these paradigms. The Factory of the Future constitutes a creative convergence of multiple technologies, techniques, and capabilities that represent a significant change in current production capabilities, models, and practices. Using the semi-narrative research methodology in concert with the snowballing approach, the authors reviewed the open literature to understand the organizing principles behind the most common smart manufacturing paradigms with a view to developing a creative reference that articulates their shared characteristics and features under a collective lingua franca, viz., Factory of the Future. Serving as a review article and a reference monograph, the paper details the meanings, characteristics, technological framework, and applications of the modern factory and its various connotations. Amongst other objectives, it characterizes the next-generation factory and provides an overview of reference architectures/models that guide their structured development and deployment. Three advanced communication technologies capable of advancing the goals of the Factory of the Future and rapidly scaling advancements in the field are discussed. It was established that next-generation factories would be data rich environments. The realization of their ultimate value would depend on the ability of stakeholders to develop the appropriate infrastructure to extract, store, and process data to support decision making and process optimization.

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“…The AAS in Figure 1 consists of a body and a header. The header contains identifying details regarding the AAS and the represented asset, and the body comprises a certain number of submodels to facilitate the asset-specific characterization of the AAS (see [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]).…”

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Automated Design and Integration of Asset Administration Shells in Components of Industry 4.0

Arm

Benešl

Marcoň

et al. 2021

Sensors

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One of the central concepts in the principles of Industry 4.0 relates to the methodology for designing and implementing the digital shell of the manufacturing process components. This concept, the Asset Administration Shell (AAS), embodies a systematically formed, standardized data envelope of a concrete component within Industry 4.0. The paper discusses the AAS in terms of its structure, its components, the sub-models that form a substantial part of the shell’s content, and its communication protocols (Open Platform Communication—Unified Architecture (OPC UA) and MQTT) or SW interfaces enabling vertical and horizontal communication to involve other components and levels of management systems. Using a case study of a virtual assembly line that integrates AASs into the technological process, the authors present a comprehensive analysis centered on forming AASs for individual components. In the given context, the manual AAS creation mode exploiting framework-based automated generation, which forms the AAS via a configuration wizard, is assessed. Another outcome consists of the activation of a virtual assembly line connected to real AASs, a step that allows us verify the properties of the distributed manufacturing management. Moreover, a discrete event system was modeled for the case study, enabling the effective application of the Industry 4.0 solution.

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A Review of Asset Administration Shell

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Integration of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) for Smart Manufacturing: State-of-Art and Future Opportunities

Integration of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) for Smart Manufacturing: State-of-Art and Future Opportunities

A Primer on the Factories of the Future

Automated Design and Integration of Asset Administration Shells in Components of Industry 4.0

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