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Augmented Reality (AR) applications gain more and more relevance in various industrial applications, e. g. for product presentations, education, engineering, etc. In the industrial domain, especially in process supervision applications, a number of standards and guidelines have been established to ensure that the design of user interfaces meets the safety requirements of plants or factories. Hence,...
During the development of production plants, powerful tools (e.g. for CAD, CAE, or simulation) are used. The resulting engineering data represent the basis for the development of the corresponding HMI. However, this development is usually still performed manually to a great extent. Therefore, this paper describes a model-based approach for the integrated design of HMIs for production plants. Beginning...
The OPC specifications define common interfaces towards process data servers for user interfaces, alarm servers, etc. in industrial automation. The hybrid profile defined in the latest OPC specification Unified Architecture (OPC UA) combines an efficient binary encoding of messages with a transmission over HTTP(S). This enables pure web browser-based OPC UA clients that do not need any additional...
Visualization systems to monitor or to operate technical processes in industrial automation depend on dedicated runtime environments and therefore on particular platforms. On the other hand, an increasing number of different platforms are available raising the development effort significantly. The Model Driven Software Development procedure fosters sustainability of visualization solutions by separating...
Model-based user interface development methods offer capabilities to cope with the increasing effort needed for the development of industrial visualization systems. This increasing effort emerges among others from new device classes like smart phones or tablets to be supported. Current modeling languages usually support a dedicated class of platforms, e.g. either PCs or smart phones. Thus, despite...
Current visualization systems in industrial automation mostly rely on dedicated runtime environments making the migration of visualization solutions from one platform to another almost impossible. On the other hand, an increasing number of different platforms has to be used also in industrial automation, to monitor or to operate the technical process. We propose with Movisa a model-driven approach...
This paper presents the combination of two distinct model driven HMI engineering approaches. Together they setup a complete toolchain that lays the basis for the model driven (semi)automatic generation of flexible, multi-platform HMIs for process industries. The two approaches are autoHMI which derives a concrete UI design from Computer Aided Engineering Data, and XVCML which allows to generate final...
The state-of-the-art object-oriented modeling language UML does not offer any possibilities for model based analysis of functional or non-functional properties of a future solution. Reasons therefore are the semi-formality of its specification, the fact that it is not an executable language (yet) as well as the existence of informational gaps in the data, required for the desired analysis. This disadvantage...
This paper introduces an approach for optimizing the production in a manufacturing facility where the work pieces are carried by autonomous robots. For this purpose the process in the facility is modeled as a UML (Unified Modeling Language) activity diagram. Thereafter all of the system properties and parameters are added to the model via standard stereotypes and tagged values specified in the MARTE...
The applicability of the CAN bus technology for cost reduction potentials in the area of onboard automation of LEO-satellites is investigated. Due to its source from automotive applications the CAN bus technology is a very promising candidate in terms of functionality, performance, environmental robustness and cost. It furthermore supports efficiently functional redundancy due to its multi-master...
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