Cloud-based Plug and Work architecture of the IIC Testbed Smart Factory Web

Heymann, Sascha; Stojanovci, Ljiljana; Watson, Kym; Nam, Seungwook; Song, Byunghun; Gschossmann, Hans; Schriegel, Sebastian; Jasperneite, Jürgen

doi:10.1109/etfa.2018.8502645

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“…There are significant technical challenges to realizing the SFW vision as sketched above. The Smart Factory Web provides an open software architecture that enables the design and set-up of sustainable and resilient industrial ecosystems [14]. As such, it claims to define a blueprint architecture to be instantiated depending on the intended purpose.…”

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Smart Factory Web—A Blueprint Architecture for Open Marketplaces for Industrial Production

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The paper describes a reference architecture for open marketplaces to be used for networked stakeholders in industrial production ecosystems. The motivation for such an endeavor comes from the idea to apply the basic principle of the platform economy to offer functions of an asset “as a service” to industrial production, including the associated supply chain networks. Currently, commercial offers of “production as a service” usually lead to proprietary systems with the risk of platform vendor lock-ins. Hence, there is a need for an open approach that relies upon international (emerging) standards, especially those from IETF, IEC, the Plattform Industrie 4.0 and the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA). The presented approach enables federation of marketplaces according to well-defined interfaces. This article proposes a technology-independent open architecture derived from functional and non-functional system requirements and driven by the idea of the Smart Factory Web, a testbed of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). Furthermore, the architecture of the Smart Factory Web (SFW) platform is presented and assessed against the current and future demands of open federated marketplaces for industrial production ecosystems.

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“…There is also a link to the IIC testbed Negotiation Automation Platform led by NEC which applies the SFW for the registration and search for suitable manufacturing resources. Details of the SFW Testbed may be found in [13,14].…”

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“…However, novel approaches had to be pursued to accomplish the crucial requirements of the foreseen advanced applications, with strict time-criticality being one of them, along with high reliability, fault tolerance, and security. Furthermore, there are additional issues to consider, such as dense networks, sensors-to-cloud data exchange, seamless reconfiguration, support for a big data approach and convergence [24,25]. This requires a strict and seamless coexistence of IT and OT, that is, of best efforts and deterministic/time-critical data and protocols to the field level devices.…”

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A Comprehensive Review on Time Sensitive Networks with a Special Focus on Its Applicability to Industrial Smart and Distributed Measurement Systems

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The groundbreaking transformations triggered by the Industry 4.0 paradigm have dramatically reshaped the requirements for control and communication systems within the factory systems of the future. The aforementioned technological revolution strongly affects industrial smart and distributed measurement systems as well, pointing to ever more integrated and intelligent equipment devoted to derive accurate measurements. Moreover, as factory automation uses ever wider and complex smart distributed measurement systems, the well-known Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm finds its viability also in the industrial context, namely Industrial IoT (IIoT). In this context, communication networks and protocols play a key role, directly impacting on the measurement accuracy, causality, reliability and safety. The requirements coming both from Industry 4.0 and the IIoT, such as the coexistence of time-sensitive and best effort traffic, the need for enhanced horizontal and vertical integration, and interoperability between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT), fostered the development of enhanced communication subsystems. Indeed, established technologies, such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi, widespread in the consumer and office fields, are intrinsically non-deterministic and unable to support critical traffic. In the last years, the IEEE 802.1 Working Group defined an extensive set of standards, comprehensively known as Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), aiming at reshaping the Ethernet standard to support for time-, mission- and safety-critical traffic. In this paper, a comprehensive overview of the TSN Working Group standardization activity is provided, while contextualizing TSN within the complex existing industrial technological panorama, particularly focusing on industrial distributed measurement systems. In particular, this paper has to be considered a technical review of the most important features of TSN, while underlining its applicability to the measurement field. Furthermore, the adoption of TSN within the Wi-Fi technology is addressed in the last part of the survey, since wireless communication represents an appealing opportunity in the industrial measurement context. In this respect, a test case is presented, to point out the need for wirelessly connected sensors networks. In particular, by reviewing some literature contributions it has been possible to show how wireless technologies offer the flexibility necessary to support advanced mobile IIoT applications.

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“…In the present research, a visual quality-control automation application is proposed using a camera installed over the assembly line in a smart-factory model. We used the cloud-coupler and plug-and-work techniques to create a new factory or retrofit an existing one that is available in the smart factory web to share capability information toward a new marketplace for manufacturing [12]. In the present study, we not only reduce the technical efforts but also the use of standards to define the interfaces.…”

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Design and Implementation of Intelligent Automated Production-Line Control System

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Hsu

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Electronics

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Owing to the different consumption habits of people, the market has rapidly changed, and customized demands have increased in recent years. This issue has led to the need for manufacturing industry to improve their production-process automation system control to become faster and more flexible. An intelligent automated production-line control system (IAPLCS) is proposed in this study, in which a graphic control system (GCS) is designed to integrate equipment communications in automated production. This system runs complex packaged programs for function blocks, which enable users to easily build function blocks in GCS. Users can plan the control flow of the system to control the machine operation. Not only is a web interface set in the IAPLCS, which makes it easier for users to operate and monitor, but also Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensors can be added for data collection and analysis based on the characteristics of the production line and equipment. Finally, the proposed control system was implemented in an actual production line to verify its feasibility.

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Cloud-based Plug and Work architecture of the IIC Testbed Smart Factory Web

Cited by 21 publications

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Smart Factory Web—A Blueprint Architecture for Open Marketplaces for Industrial Production

Smart Factory Web—A Blueprint Architecture for Open Marketplaces for Industrial Production

A Comprehensive Review on Time Sensitive Networks with a Special Focus on Its Applicability to Industrial Smart and Distributed Measurement Systems

Design and Implementation of Intelligent Automated Production-Line Control System

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