Abstract
Engineering of manufacturing systems involves multiple disciplines, e.g. mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and software engineering. Due to the increasing functionality of automation systems and, thus, their increasing complexity, reuse of automation control software is currently achieved through copy, paste and modify. Therefore, module libraries containing verified control software are being developed to overcome these challenges. However, due to the differences of module structures in the disciplines participating in automation engineering, a pure syntactic software description based on inputs and outputs is not sufficient. Moreover, automatic retrieval of automation control software is needed to support the engineer implementing the entire system. In this paper, an approach enabling automatic retrieval of software units based on a module's hardware description by means of ontologies and customized rule-based inference is proposed.
Original language | English |
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State | Published - 2013 |
Event | 22nd International Conference on Production Research, ICPR 2013 - Parana, Brazil Duration: 28 Jul 2013 → 1 Aug 2013 |
Conference
Conference | 22nd International Conference on Production Research, ICPR 2013 |
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Country/Territory | Brazil |
City | Parana |
Period | 28/07/13 → 1/08/13 |
Keywords
- Collaborative engineering
- Manufacturing systems
- Modularity
- Semantic technologies