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Engineering Digital Twins and Digital Shadows as Key Enablers for Industry 4.0 Read chapter Read first chapter

2023 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Designing Strongly-decoupled Industry 4.0 Applications Across the Stack: A Use Case

Authors : Christoph Mayr-Dorn, Alois Zoitl, Georg Weichhart, Michael Mayrhofer, Alexander Egyed

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Abstract

Loose coupling of system components on all levels of automated production systems enables vital systems-of-systems properties such as simplified composition, variability, testing, reuse, maintenance, and adaptation. All these are crucial aspects needed to realize highly flexible and adaptable production systems. Based on traditional software architecture concepts, we describe in this chapter a use case of how message-based communication and appropriate architectural styles can help to realize these properties. A building block is the capabilities that describe what production participants (machines, robots, humans, logistics) are able to do. Capabilities are applied at all levels in our use case: describing the production process, describing machines, transport logistics, down to capabilities of the various functional units within a machine or robot. Based on this use case, this chapter aims to show how such a system can be designed to achieve loosely coupling and what example technologies and methodologies can be applied on the different levels.

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OPC UA is short for Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture.
 
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The core meta-model uses the term Actor which we replace here with Participant to avoid confusing the term with the actor implementation approach outlined in Sect. 5.
 
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An OPC UA node has a unique id, but potentially a non-unique browsename.
 
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Metadata
Title
Designing Strongly-decoupled Industry 4.0 Applications Across the Stack: A Use Case
Authors
Christoph Mayr-Dorn
Alois Zoitl
Georg Weichhart
Michael Mayrhofer
Alexander Egyed
Copyright Year
2023
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Digital Transformation

Print ISBN: 978-3-662-65003-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-662-65004-2

Copyright Year: 2023

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65004-2_2

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