Reactive business processes for factory automation

Abstract

Modern enterprises operate on a global scale and depend on complex business processes. Business continuity needs to be guaranteed, while changes at the shop floor should happen onthe-fly without stopping the production process. Unfortunately, the existing business processes found in most enterprises are not modular enough, nor they have dynamic support from the device level. However, as the number of sophisticated networked embedded devices in the shop-floor increases, SOA concepts can now be pushed down and provide a better collaboration between the business systems and the production line. This leads to highly dynamic systems that can adapt and optimize their behavior to achieve their goals. The work presented here shows directions to achieve this dynamism by means of simulation, state identification and close coupling of real world and business systems.

Design and evaluation of IPv4/IPv6 translator for IP based industrial network protocol

“…[14] has researched to embed the http server on field device to introduce Service Oriented Architecture. Then, the field devices are accessible from informational network seamlessly.…”

Industrial robotics for ERP controlled smart factories

“…At commercial industrial robots the access to information of a machine is limited, especially at PLC based production cells [4]. It is usually enough for normal system requirements, but not for special needs [5][6][7][8]. At the open source automation control system different modules can be installed, implemented or developed like at the ERPs [9,10].…”