Abstract
In industrial automation, adaptability is a key feature that can enhance the degree of autonomy in a plant sparing engineering months and costs. With the introduction of the service oriented architecture in control automation, a topology model is required to identify the vicinity relationships between the devices. Nowadays, due to the absence of the coupling between logistic aspects and control logic, the topology models are manually constructed which consequently affects the autonomy of the procedures generation. In this contribution, we introduce a concept to couple the logistics model with the devices abilities to generate product flow paths and procedures considering adaptable conditions.
Zusammenfassung
In der industriellen Automatisierung ist Wandelbarkeit ein Schlüsselmerkmal, das den Grad an Autonomie in einer Anlage verbessern kann, wodurch Engineering-Monate und Kosten gespart werden können. Für die Einführung einer serviceorientierten Architektur in der Steuerungsautomatisierung wird ein Topologiemodell benötigt, um die Umgebungsbeziehungen zwischen den Geräten zu identifizieren. Aufgrund der fehlenden Kopplung zwischen logistischen Aspekten und Steuerungslogik werden die Topologiemodelle heutzutage manuell erstellt, was sich negativ auf die Autonomie der Prozedurerzeugung auswirkt. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir ein Konzept zur Kopplung des Logistikmodells mit den Fähigkeiten der Geräte vor, um Produktflusspfade und -verfahren unter Berücksichtigung anpassbarer Bedingungen zu generieren.
Funding source: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Award Identifier / Grant number: 01|S16022
Funding statement: The authors were supported by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the scope of BaSys 4.0 project (Förderkennzeichen 01|S16022).
About the authors
Haitham Elfaham received his M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2014 at University of Paderborn. He submitted his Ph. D. in 2019 at the Chair of Process Control Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. Currently, he is holding lectures and conducting research at RWTH Aachen University. His research topics include load adaption, resources usage optimization, redeployment of software components and adaptability in intralogistics.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Epple is head of Department “Process Control Engineering” since 1995 at the RWTH Aachen University. His research topics include search for technical model universals, modeling of automation systems, formal methods in engineering, operation and maintenance, application of model-driven architectures, models @runtime and selfX-technologies in process automation.
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