The increasing complexity of modern industrial aPS and their development and optimization during their whole lifecycle has led to MBSE as a possible solution for handling this complexity. Backhaus et al. [
21] introduce an approach based on digital production process models aiming to shorten the engineering process, e.g. when adapting plants to new products and requirements. An approach for the systematic model-based development of production automation systems has been proposed by Vepsäläinen et al. [
5] with AUKOTON. This approach covers several aspects of an automation system but lacks methods to integrate user-defined control logic [
3,
6]. Possibilities to explicitly specify information for automatic deployment of Function Blocks onto controllers with respect to multiple optimization objectives (cost, latency, load distribution, and heat generation) are missing too. Reuter et al. [
7] present an approach to integrate sub-models for control configurations in MBSE tools to improve the interdisciplinary modeling of manufacturing systems during development phase. Other SysML-based approaches [
8,
10] provide the modeling of (non-functional) requirements and the application of simulations for design validation. However, in contrast to the work in [
3] these approaches do not provide a direct integration with automation system software. The same holds for Thramboulidis et al. [
9] which are also based on SysML and provide the modeling of domain-specific components along with their functional and non-functional requirements but lack a sufficient coupling between the functional models and run-time environments. The approaches [
10,
11] of Fantuzzi et al. are also based on SysML as well as on Unified Modeling Language (UML) intend to describe the different aspects of aPS and mechatronic systems in general. In [
11], design patterns for the generation of aPS’ software are presented still lacking a close integration between the modeled behavior and executed code on the target platform as in [
3]. Estevez includes models from various domains in the development of aPS using XML schemes [
12,
13] but lack an optimized deployment of the functionality onto controllers. Brecher et al. introduce an approach for developing a control logic based on a SysML model [
14], including component behavior models integrated in the overall system model. The approach addresses the reuse of the behavior models for the development of system modifications using control agents. A promising approach in the domain of building automation is [
15], hence, a coupling between product and production system models is not considered. Whereas the aforementioned approaches mainly focused on automation systems based on the IEC 61131 standard, other works which address event-driven implementations conforming to the IEC 61499 standard [
16,
17] exist but have not been widely accepted in industry, yet. To describe automation hardware devices, several languages like EDDL and FDT [
18] for describing field devices and networked architecture systems in a detailed way exist. The approach motivated in this paper may be extended by these descriptions to address a domain-specific hardware modeling.