Direct deployment of component-based automation systems

Kong, Xiangjun; Ahmad, Bilal; Harrison, Robert; Park, Y.; Lee, Leslie J.

doi:10.1109/etfa.2012.6489760

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“…As a result, product assembly is becoming a challenging task. Industries have to frequently change manufacturing process plans and subsequently reconfigure/build assembly lines to manufacture new products [1].…”

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Product, process and resource model coupling for knowledge-driven assembly automation

Ferrer

Ahmad

Vera

et al. 2016

At - Automatisierungstechnik

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. (2016) Product, process and resource model coupling for knowledge-driven assembly automation. Automatisierungstechnik, 64 (3). pp. 231-243. Permanent WRAP URL:http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/78817 Copyright and reuse:The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work by researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. Abstract: Accommodating frequent product changes in a short period of time is a challenging task due to limitations of the contemporary engineering approach to design, build and reconfigure automation systems. In particular, the growing quantity and diversity of manufacturing information, and the increasing need to exchange and reuse this information in an efficient way has become a bottleneck. To improve the engineering process, digital manufacturing and Product, Process and Resource (PPR) modelling are considered very promising to compress development time and engineering cost by enabling efficient design and reconfiguration of manufacturing resources. However, due to ineffective coupling of PPR data, design and reconfiguration of assembly systems are still challenging tasks due to the dependency on the knowledge and experience of engineers. This paper presents an approach for data models integration that can be employed for coupling the PPR domain models for matching the requirements of products for assembly automation. The approach presented in this paper can be used effectively to link data models from various engineering domains and engineering tools. For proof of concept, an example implementation of the approach for modelling and integration of PPR for a Festo test rig is presented as a case study. Keywords:Knowledge driven systems, model coupling, ontology matching, assembly automation.

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Product, process and resource model coupling for knowledge-driven assembly automation

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Ahmad

Vera

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At - Automatisierungstechnik

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“…The detailed discussion of the generation of PLC code is beyond the scope of this paper. However, some discussion of the approach can be found in [8,20].…”

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“…These programs can then be tested against the 3D simulation model to verify the control behaviour before the physical build. However, programming is still manual, which leads to error-prone code due to human mistakes [8].…”

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Automatic generation of Human Machine Interface screens from component-based reconfigurable virtual manufacturing cell

Ahmad

Kong

Harrison

et al. 2013

IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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Abstract-Increasing complexity and decreasing time-tomarket require changes in the traditional way of building automation systems. The paper describes a novel approach to automatically generate the Human Machine Interface (HMI) screens for component-based manufacturing cells based on their corresponding virtual models. Manufacturing cells are first prototyped and commissioned within a virtual engineering environment to validate and optimise the control behaviour. A framework for reusing the embedded control information in the virtual models to automatically generate the HMI screens is proposed. Finally, for proof of concept, the proposed solution is implemented and tested on a test rig.

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“…Kong et. al [15]. proposed a virtual engineering approach for direct deployment of modular automation systems.…”

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A component-based design pattern for improving reusability of automation programs

Dai

Vyatkin

2013

IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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This paper proposes a component-based design pattern for distributed automation programs. This design pattern aims to improve reusability of programs and reduce redevelopment time. Component-based design issues in both IEC 61131-3 and IEC 61499 platforms are analyzed. Then the design pattern is proposed in a form of a set of rules. The pattern combines properties of serviceoriented architecture (SOA) with multi-layered organization and engineering benefits of component organization. This design pattern is applied to both IEC 61131-3 and IEC 61499 on example of a real airport baggage handling automation system. The result proves that the design pattern brings convenience for developers of automation programs and improves reusability of software components.

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Direct deployment of component-based automation systems

Cited by 13 publications

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Product, process and resource model coupling for knowledge-driven assembly automation

Product, process and resource model coupling for knowledge-driven assembly automation

Automatic generation of Human Machine Interface screens from component-based reconfigurable virtual manufacturing cell

A component-based design pattern for improving reusability of automation programs

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