Reconfigurable industrial process monitoring using the CHROMOSOME middleware

Abstract

Abstract-In all areas of industrial production and construction, companies have to implement processes with increasing complexity and reliability to satisfy their customer's needs with respect to product quality and continuity. Fulfilling these requirements means to employ continuous process monitoring and documentation without increasing production cost significantly even in case of subsequent reorganization of the production facility. The Multifunk research project focuses on the development and integration of features into the CHROMOSOME middleware to provide the basis for an intelligent, self-adapting process monitoring framework for production quality assurance. The key features of the framework are self-organization and selfconfiguration based on meta information in combination with industry standard protocols to guarantee an easy integration into industrial processes. The CHROMOSOME middleware is used on top of smart sensor platform MST2012 that has been developed in the course of the research project to tie established analog sensors to the digital process monitoring world. The contribution of this paper is a flexible, self-adaptive embedded middleware in combination with a smart sensor gateway for industrial process monitoring.

Increasing the adaptability of manufacturing systems by using data-centric communication

“…The architecture of XME is depicted in Figure 2. XME offers the following features that meet the requirements of Section IV [19]: space, time, and flow decoupling of components is achieved due to the data-centric communication paradigm. It offers flexibility, self-adaptability, and plug & play capability.…”