From PSS to CPS Design: A Real Industrial Use Case Toward Industry 4.0

Abstract

During the last 10 years, manufacturing companies have faced new challenges for improving their value proposition and being more efficient and effective on the market, satisfying the customer needs. According to this trend, several technologies have been developed and applied in different sectors and with different aims, in order to support such the companies in their reconfiguration. For example, the recent advances in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) could give also to manufacturing industries the competences required to develop novel sustainable products embedded with a dedicated infrastructure able to provide more service functionalities to customer. In this context, the application of Internet of Things (IoT) have allowed developing the so named Product Service Systems (PSSs). Moreover, the cross-fertilization between such the technologies with the development of other ones have fostered the application of these novel ICT technologies inside the manufacturing companies also at process level. This approach has encouraged the study and development of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). The present paper deals with a real industrial use case, where the application of ICT technologies and specifically the adoption of IoT at a plant of plastic extrusion pipes have allowed optimizing the production process in terms of energy efficiency

How to develop IoT products: a technology company case study

“…The company studied does not yet present plans for the development or use of an integrated platform of hardware, software and services as indicated before (THAMES; SCHAEFER, 2016;TAN;NG;LOW, 2017). Moreover, there were no initiatives for the use cloud computing mechanisms for processing the company's products as already suggested (QIN et al, 2017;MARILUNGO et al, 2017;REN et al, 2017;CAVALCANTE, 2019).…”

“…The software definition recommendations refer to the architecture of applications (TAN; NG; LOW, 2017), platforms (THAMES; SCHAEFER, 2016), and communication protocols aimed at IoT devices (most significant; RAHMAN; SHAH, 2016). In turn, the guidelines for service architecture refer mainly to the use of cloud computing (QIN et al, 2017;MARILUNGO et al, 2017;REN et al, 2017;CAVALCANTE, 2019).…”

Como Desenvolver Produtos Com Tecnologias Iot: Um Estudo De Caso Em Empresa De Tecnologias

“…As indicações para as definições referentes ao software são direcionadas à arquitetura dos aplicativos (TAN et al, 2017), de plataformas (THAMES; SCHAEFER, 2016) e de protocolos de comunicação voltados para os dispositivos IoT (FRAMLING; MAHARJAN, 2013; RAHMAN; SHAH, 2016). As orientações direcionadas para a arquitetura de serviços se referem principalmente à utilização de cloud computing (QIN et al, 2017;MARILUNGO et al, 2017;REN et al, 2017;CAVALCANTE, 2019).…”

Developing of Industry 4.0 Applications

“…Firstly, there are applications or proposals that do not use standards and nor define a system architecture such as in [18] [19]. Secondly, there are projects which propose a system architecture but do not integrate the standards such as in [20,21,22] where they propose the use of AutomationML and OPC UA as future work.…”