Leveraging inconsistency management in the multi-view collaborative modelling of cyber-physical production systems

Cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) are interconnected systems producing customised products. Such a system appeals for flexibility and closer cross-disciplinary collaboration, which might introduce inconsistencies among models and lead to system failures. Detecting inconsistencies needs expert knowledge and is usually performed in an ad-hoc way. Knowledge base, a technology which stores knowledge formally for automatic problem-solving, can efficiently assist engineers in detecting inconsistencies across engineering models and between the models and their physical realisations. The approach is evaluated with a bench-scale CPPS.