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A frequently denominated use case of Industrie 4.0 is plug-and-work. This use case not only requires the technical base to determine how and what information has to be exchanged during the startup of software and hardware components in the production environment, but also deals with very sensitive information which results in a high demand to secure these. In consequence, plug-and-work mechanisms...
New demands, coming from the industry 4.0 concept of the near future production systems have to be fulfilled in the coming years. Seamless integration of current technologies with new ones is mandatory. The concept of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) is the core of the new control and automation distributed systems. However, it is necessary to provide the global production system with integrated...
The integration of new technologies in existing work tasks requires the integration of the users in all steps of the development process. In this work the human-centred design process according to the ISO 9241-210 is applied to fulfil the necessary participation of users. The Head Worn Display Glass of Google Inc. prototypically is used to improve the periodical calibration of the driver assistance...
In packaging industry, the duration of the carton folding plays a fundamental role in the production process; in particular in the erection process when each panel rotates around the die-pressed lines called creases. Their bending response can be very complex, depending on forming and environment conditions. The crease mechanical properties, such as geometrical parameters, temperature, moisture and...
The automated planning in Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) reduces the need for the human-error-prone repetitive planning task. Modeling CPPS and the required products for planning purposes can be done with domain-independent planning languages, like Planning Domain Definition Language or Prolog. However, such domain-independent languages do not satisfy all requirements in CPPS, like concurrency...
Planning in a multi-site, non-mass production environment is a special challenge because of several sources of uncertainty. Unlike in mass production facilities, in our setting the current state at all sites cannot be determined easily and exactly due to the spatial distribution of sites and the low degree of automation. For re-planning in case of failures, the possible alternative actions have to...
New approaches and business models for the development of renewable sources are needed as an alternative to feed-in tariffs. In this work, we present a tool-chain based on a distributed infrastructure for planning renewable energy systems deployment. This solution aims at fostering new services and business models by promoting energy community actions. Such tool-chain is able to: i) evaluate the photovoltaic...
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 Internet of Things (IoT) and its infrastructures for ubiquitous, grid and cloud computing map well with the manufacturing environment and its needs to decentralize and distribute in order to increase its levels of flexibility, agility and dependability. Multi Agent Systems (MAS) make it possible to increase the autonomy and flexibility in the industrial environment allowing for an increase in...
Implementation of the sustainable policy guidelines at a company level is not an easy task. The decisions about resource allocation, changes in process organization or new investments should be considered taking into account their economic, environmental and social effects. Remanufacturing processes contributes to the fulfilment of the circular economy paradigm. The existing body of literature highlights...
The reduction of the effort required for integration of a module into a production plant is the fundamental aim of modular plant architectures. Effective module integration can be achieved, for instance, by shifting engineering efforts from the classical site-engineering to the engineering of plant modules. The basis of this approach is the formal description of various aspects of a module in a module...
Today's increasing use of Virtual Commissioning during the development process of automated manufacturing plants paired with the still increasing request towards better control program quality leads to the need of improved virtual plants with more effortless set ups. The common techniques of simulating the plant within the Virtual Commissioning do no longer fulfil these needs, new approaches have...
In recent years automation systems have been required to provide characteristics of flexibility and efficiency in order to cope with the fast changes of the market and consumer demands. To deal with these requirements, the industry has started to implement reconfiguration techniques in order to allow the automation system to reschedule the production, recover from faulty situations and to update the...
Industrial manufacturing processes are complex processes, where transparency of every process step is necessary to achieve a high level of quality and efficiency. In order to achieve this transparency, manufacturing execution systems (MES) are used. However, as these systems are very expensive, mainly due to individual programming effort, MES usage is oftentimes limited to larger companies. To ultimately...
A district heating grid is a hot water pipeline grid used to transmit waste heat from CHP (Combined Heat and Power) production plants to buildings, where it is used for service water and space heating. Currently, broad use of district heating is limited to Northern Europe and some regions in Central Europe, but the European Union Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU and Energy Performance of Buildings...
This paper presents a design of ontology aimed at the optimization of production ramp-up of higly complex and customized products, developed within the European project ARUM. The ARUM solution consists of a large number of software components including schedulers, planners, legacy data transformation services and end-user client interfaces, which are integrated via the Enterprice Service Bus. The...
The Field Device Integration (FDI) standard represents an industry-wide consensus on device integration for the process industry. Following the release of IEC 62769, first products have been released at Hannover Fair 2015. Backward-compatibility, interoperability between vendors, and vertical integration based on OPC UA ensure protection of investment and lower life-cycle costs already in today's...
Modern process plants are becoming more and more complex with high demands placed on design, engineering and operation. Throughout the life-cycle of process plants there is always the typical conflict involving costs, time and quality. One way of resolving this conflict is to employ simulation technology as it can be used to answer questions relating to engineering and operation earlier and with lower...
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