TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing a model-based engineering approach for distributed manufacturing automation systems with characteristics and design patterns
AU - Fay, Alexander
AU - Vogel-Heuser, Birgit
AU - Frank, Timo
AU - Eckert, Karin
AU - Hadlich, Thomas
AU - Diedrich, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/3/1
Y1 - 2015/3/1
N2 - Recent trends in modern manufacturing, such as the growing need for flexibility and the increasing degree of automation in industrial facilities, require distributed control solutions. Implementations of such control schemas and underlying architectures come along with an exponential increase of the automation system's complexity. Therefore, methods for supporting automation engineers during the development processes are highly required. This paper presents an approach to supportingmodel-based engineering (MBE) of distributed manufacturing automation systems. The approach is based on the combination of notation, characteristics, and design patterns across multiple levels of an adapted development process. Accordingly, a prototypical support tool has been implemented. The modeling approach has been evaluated by case studies and additional usability experiments to determine the benefit of its application within the design of manufacturing automation systems.
AB - Recent trends in modern manufacturing, such as the growing need for flexibility and the increasing degree of automation in industrial facilities, require distributed control solutions. Implementations of such control schemas and underlying architectures come along with an exponential increase of the automation system's complexity. Therefore, methods for supporting automation engineers during the development processes are highly required. This paper presents an approach to supportingmodel-based engineering (MBE) of distributed manufacturing automation systems. The approach is based on the combination of notation, characteristics, and design patterns across multiple levels of an adapted development process. Accordingly, a prototypical support tool has been implemented. The modeling approach has been evaluated by case studies and additional usability experiments to determine the benefit of its application within the design of manufacturing automation systems.
KW - Distributed systems
KW - Manufacturing automation system
KW - Model-based engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84921631007&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jss.2014.12.028
DO - 10.1016/j.jss.2014.12.028
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921631007
SN - 0164-1212
VL - 101
SP - 221
EP - 235
JO - Journal of Systems and Software
JF - Journal of Systems and Software
ER -