Variability management for automated production systems using product lines and feature models

Vogel‐Heuser, Birgit; Simon, Thomas; Fischer, Juliane

doi:10.1109/indin.2016.7819355

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“…The approach presented in this paper relies on three basic elements of a feature-oriented engineering process (Kang et al, 1990; Rabiser et al, 2018; Vogel-Heuser et al, 2016):…”

Section: Background and Illustrative Examplementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Vogel-Heuser et al (2016) investigated challenges for applying product lines and feature modeling in the domain of automated production systems. They proposed a modeling approach for using interdisciplinary product lines allowing to integrate multiple machines in a production plant, thereby also combining software and hardware variability.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The automation industry is facing an increasing market demand for machine-specific and customer-specific solutions (Lettner et al, 2014b; Vogel-Heuser et al, 2015, 2016) while still needing to serve a broad automation domain. It has been pointed out that companies nowadays want to quickly create new products from existing family solutions, ideally supported by a decision-based system allowing to quickly configure and customize a product that meets the customer requirements (Prasad and Rogers, 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, industrial software solutions are often developed using a product line approach (Pohl et al, 2005). Methods for product line engineering emphasize features, which are used by product managers, software architects, and developers to plan systems and their evolution (Dartigues et al, 2007; Kang et al, 1990; Lin et al, 1996; Rabiser et al, 2018; Vogel-Heuser et al, 2016). It has also been shown that features provide a useful abstraction and common view of variability in a wide range of development artifacts (Berger et al, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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In the domain of industrial automation companies nowadays need to serve a mass market while at the same time customers demand highly customized solutions. To tackle this problem, companies frequently define software product lines (SPLs), which allow to automatically derive and further customize individual solutions based on a common platform. SPLs rely on defining common and variable platform features together with mappings, which define how the features are realized in implementation artifacts. In concurrent engineering such a feature-oriented process is challenged by the evolution of features, the complexity of feature-to-artifact mappings, and the diversity of the implementation artifacts. To address these challenges this paper introduces an approach supporting feature-oriented development and evolution in industrial SPLs. We outline the key elements and operations of our approach, including an implementation in a development environment. We report results of evaluating our approach regarding functional correctness, usefulness, and scalability based on a case study of a Pick-and-Place Unit (PPU) and an industrial case system.

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“…The approach presented in this paper relies on three basic elements of a feature-oriented engineering process (Kang et al, 1990; Rabiser et al, 2018; Vogel-Heuser et al, 2016):…”

Section: Background and Illustrative Examplementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%