Speaker:
Christoph Binder – Researcher, Fachhochschule Salzburg
Abstract:
Flexible production systems rely on utilizing cyber-physical systems (CPS) or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for managing large numbers of system components, with the goal to automate production processes, optimize resource handling or flexible manufacture products in lot size 1.
However, due to heterogeneous components making best possible decisions for themselves, which are distributed throughout the whole value-creation network, describing such system architectures becomes a challenging task. Furthermore, in future manufacturing systems, the integrated development of production systems, smart product designs and manufacturing process is encouraged, because they are dependent from each other. As contemporary frameworks reach their limits while developing flexible production system architectures, novel methodologies need to emerge aiming to deal with the upcoming complexity.
Thus, this paper introduces a powerful framework for developing such system architectures by applying a domain-specific-language, a particular process model and automation functionalities, called the RAMI Toolbox. To cope with the complexity, this toolbox makes use of the characteristics originating from the Reference Architecture Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0) and applies the concepts of model-based systems engineering (MBSE). In this paper the compilation of the RAMI Toolbox is explained in detail and application examples of flexible production systems are outlined.