Assessment of industrial middleware technologies for the PERFoRM project
- 1. University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer
Description
To meet the increasing requirements which are
set for modern production systems regarding flexibility, reconfigurability
and collaborative behavior, a common information,
Communication & Control (ICT) platform for guaranteeing
connectivity has to be put in place. Industrial Middleware, i.e.
SW/HW solutions, which help connecting and mediating different
industrial cyber-physical components of a distributed system
(such as a production system) are an essential component of
such a platform.
The paper describes the assessment of existing industrial
Middleware solutions which are targeting re-configurability and
connectivity of modern industrial environments. It states a set of
important functional requirements which need to be considered
to select the right solution for individual use cases. A big emphasis
is put into finding industrially applicable solutions.