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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Architecture of a Framework For Real-Time Interoperable Factories
Author : Max Hoffmann
Published in: Smart Agents for the Industry 4.0
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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Considering the challenges that are connected to the complexity of current manufacturing systems as pointed out in the problem description and fundamentals, it is the aim of this chapter to outline an architectural approach that takes into account these requirements. The challenges in terms of the derivation of an agent-based/HMS inspired architecture regarding novel manufacturing systems are very well pointed out by Shen and Norrie (1999), Jin-Hai et al. (2003), McFarlane and Bussmann (2003) and Botti and Giret (2008): enterprise integration, distributed organization, heterogeneous environments, interoperability, open and dynamic structures, cooperation, integration of humans with software and hardware, agility, scalability, and fault tolerance. The boundary conditions made up by these challenges as well as the technological approaches pointed out in the state of the art section of this thesis constitute the cornerstone for this architecture.