Migration from traditional towards cyber-physical production systems

Abstract

Abstract-Nowadays, many organizations intend to convert their existing production systems towards ones that are characterized by adaptability, openness, flexibility and modularity. This requires a redesign of existing information processing systems especially related to control, leading possibly to cyber-physical production systems (CPPS). However, the implementation of new control technologies will have a direct impact on the normal operational status of production while engineers will also face several challenges and obstacles in adopting intelligent automation systems. New step-wise migration strategies are required to holistically support industries in their journey towards CPPS taking into account technical, economic and social aspects. This paper discusses the migration state-of-the-art strategies, analyzing them and providing a first attempt to define a migration approach for innovative production systems.

A Migration Methodology for Factories Digital Transformation

“…To increase the adoption of future manufacturing paradigm, industries should be supported with migration strategies [7]. The term "migration" refers to the transformation of a system from its legacy condition to the desired one.…”

“…As described in [2], it aims at identifying the optimal migration path for a factory towards the decentralization of its current automation architecture by means of cloud-and edgebased technologies. The FAR-EDGE migration strategy implies the comparison of several features, such as risks, time, migration, costs and effort [7]. These steps are not usually performed by the company alone.…”

“…There could be more than one way to reach the desired result and the TO-BE scenario could not be unique. In fact, different migration scenarios according to the possible technology options are investigated [7] in order to identify the migration alternatives to go from the identified AS-IS situation to the TO-BE one. To this end, a tool called Migration Matrix (Fig.…”

Petri nets approach for designing the migration process towards industrial cyber-physical production systems

“…PERFoRM defines a new migration process that comprises five main stages stages [15], namely Preparation, Options of Investigation, Design, Transformation and Deployment, as represented in the Petri nets model illustrated in Figure 1. The migration process starts with the Preparation phase, where the old system is analyzed and the general structure of the target system is defined, considering the process main goal.…”

Complete Automation of an Energy Consumption Reduction Strategy from a Water Treatment and Distribution Facility, Inside an Industrial Internet of Things-Compliant Proactive Historian Application

“…Certainly, those new links between previously isolated mechanical systems would set the required conditions for the emergence of intelligent software solutions that, eventually, will be capable of optimizing technical systems and maximizing their performances, with directly measurable benefits for all parties involved. This relatively recent, wide spectrum, fast advancing, high potential, huge interest drawing research direction from the industrial branch is guided at the conceptual level by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] and Industry 4.0 [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ] paradigms, both very similar approaches which are pleading towards the introduction of digitalization into industry and connecting the physical world to the Internet [ 11 ]. The potential benefits of this endeavor are not neglectable in any way and will be better highlighted with the introduction of more innovative technological solutions, such as the ones described in [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ].…”