Model-driven engineering of Manufacturing Automation Software Projects – A SysML-based approach

Vogel‐Heuser, Birgit; Schütz, Daniel; Frank, Timo; Legat, Christoph

doi:10.1016/j.mechatronics.2014.05.003

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“…In order to examine the industrial applicability of the wrapper, the so-called interaction points [23], which can interact with different parts of the control software based on the calling of the module or reading and writing of the shared memory, have to be examined. The goal is to ensure the application of the approach not only on the interface to neighboring modules, but also to further interaction points and the behavior description of a module.…”

Section: Scalability Of the Approachmentioning

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Analyzing the industrial scalability of backwards compatible intralogistics systems

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Prod. Eng. Res. Devel.

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The (re-)development of industrial production systems has to deal with high flexibility due to customers' demands as well as constraints such as the dimensions of the manufactory. Therefore, Intralogistics systems, which transport goods or products between machine tools in the production system, must also be flexibly assembled to fit into the given space. This presupposes that parts of the Intralogistics system, such as a belt conveyor, may be modified or exchanged by different ones and with less effort. Additionally, due to the different lifespans of mechanical, electrical and software components, often electrical devices need to be replaced by other ones during operation as a result of lacking availability thanks to shorter life cycles. Nowadays in industry, a manual adaptation of the control software is necessary after the exchange of an electrical/mechanical device with a newer one. In order to ease the software adaptation, in this paper an automatic analysis of the differences between incompatible software and an adaptation approach focusing on the functional behavior of the software is introduced. After identifying seven interaction points of the control software that need to be adapted, the approach is evaluated with an industrial case study and feedback from industrial experts to prove industrial scalability.

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Section: Scalability Of the Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing the industrial scalability of backwards compatible intralogistics systems

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Spindler

Fottner

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“…An approach for the systematic model-based development of production automation systems has been proposed by Vepsäläinen et al [5] with AUKOTON. This approach covers several aspects of an automation system but lacks methods to integrate user-defined control logic [3,6]. Possibilities to explicitly specify information for automatic deployment of Function Blocks onto controllers with respect to multiple optimization objectives (cost, latency, load distribution, and heat generation) are missing too.…”

Section: Model-based Development Of Flexible Automated Production Sysmentioning

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Towards the co-evolution of industrial products and its production systems by combining models from development and hardware/software deployment in cyber-physical systems

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Wildermann

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2017

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“…E6 evaluates different modeling and programming notations (see also [16]), i.e. Parametric diagram (PD) of SysML-AT [26] vs.…”

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“…Following Sierla [28] and the difficulties identified for engineering of distributed systems E7 evaluates a SysML-AT based notation and workflow vs. CFC for a high-level design of NAS in MS (see also [16] [45]). The evaluated approach focuses on the overall design of NAS integrating notation SysML-AT being the successor of plcUML.…”

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Usability Experiments to Evaluate UML/SysML-Based Model Driven Software Engineering Notations for Logic Control in Manufacturing Automation

Vogel‐Heuser¹

2014

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Many industrial companies and researchers are looking for more efficient model driven engineering approaches (MDE) in software engineering of manufacturing automation systems (MS) especially for logic control programming, but are uncertain about the applicability and effort needed to implement those approaches in comparison to classical Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programming with IEC 61131-3. The paper summarizes results of usability experiments evaluating UML and SysML as software engineering notations for a MDE applied in the domain of manufacturing systems. Modeling MS needs to cover the domain specific characteristics, i.e. hybrid process, real time requirements and communication requirements. In addition the paper presents factors, constraint and practical experience for the development of further usability experiments. The paper gives examples of notational expressiveness and weaknesses of UML and SysML. The appendix delivers detailed master models, representing the correct best suited model, and evaluation schemes of the experiment, which is helpful if setting up own empirical experiments.

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Model-driven engineering of Manufacturing Automation Software Projects – A SysML-based approach

Cited by 89 publications

References 61 publications

Analyzing the industrial scalability of backwards compatible intralogistics systems

Analyzing the industrial scalability of backwards compatible intralogistics systems

Towards the co-evolution of industrial products and its production systems by combining models from development and hardware/software deployment in cyber-physical systems

Usability Experiments to Evaluate UML/SysML-Based Model Driven Software Engineering Notations for Logic Control in Manufacturing Automation

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