Thomas Bangemann

Industrial Cloud-Based Cyber-Physical Systems: The IMC-AESOP Approach

This book presents cutting-edge emerging technologies and approaches in the areas of service-oriented architectures, intelligent devices and cloud-based cyber-physical systems. It provides a clear view on their applicability to the management and automation of manufacturing and process industries. It offers a holistic view of future industrial cyber-physical systems and their industrial usage and also depicts technologies and architectures as well as a migration approach and engineering tools based on these. By providing a careful balance between the theory and the practical aspects, this book has been authored by several experts from academia and industry, thereby offering a valuable understanding of the vision, the domain, the processes and the results of the research. It has several illustrations and tables to clearly exemplify the concepts and results examined in the text and these are supported by four real-life case-studies. We are witnessing rapid advances in the industrial automation, mainly driven by business needs towards agility and supported by new disruptive advances both on the software and hardware side, as well as the cross-fertilization of concepts and the amalgamation of information and communication technology-driven approaches in traditional industrial automation and control systems. This book is intended for technology managers, application designers, solution developers, engineers working in industry, as well as researchers, undergraduate and graduate students of industrial automation, industrial informatics and production engineering.

A SOA-based architecture for empowering future collaborative cloud-based industrial automation

The last years we are witnessing of rapid advances in the industrial automation domain, mainly driven by business needs towards agility and supported by new disruptive technologies. Future factories will rely on multi-system interactions and collaborative cross-layer management and automation approaches. Such a factory, configured and managed from architectural and behavioural viewpoints, under the service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm is virtualized by services exposed by its key components (both HW and SW). One of the main results of this virtualization is that the factory is transformed into a “cloud of services”, where dynamic resource allocation and interactions take place. This paper presents a view on such architecture, its specification, the main motivation and considerations, as well as the preliminary services it may need to support.

Towards an architecture for service-oriented process monitoring and control

The initiative AESOP (ArchitecturE for Service-Oriented Process-Monitoring and — Control) envisions a Service-oriented Architecture approach for monitoring and control of Process Control applications (batch and continuous process). Large process industry systems are a complex (potentially very large) set of (frequently) multi-disciplinary, connected, heterogeneous systems that function as a complex system of which the components are themselves systems. The future “Perfect Plant” will be able to seamlessly collaborate and enable monitoring and control information flow in a cross-layer way. As such the different systems will be part of an SCADA/DCS ecosystem, where components can be dynamically added or removed and dynamic discovery enables the on-demand information combination and collaboration. All current and future systems will be able to share information in a timely and open manner, enabling an enterprise-wide system of systems that will dynamically evolve based on business needs. The SOA-based approach proposed by AESOP can, on one hand, simplify the integration of monitoring and control systems on application layer. On the other hand, the networking technologies that are already known to control engineers could also simplify the inclusion of or migration from existing solutions and integration of the next generation SCADA and DCS systems at network layer.

A system of systems view on collaborative industrial automation

Industrial systems are increasingly integrating Internet and other emergent technologies, concepts, methods and tools, coming from the IT world, such as cloud- or service-based approaches. As a first main consequence, the industrial automation landscape is also increasing in complexity, presenting new challenges for engineers and practitioners. Examples include dealing with evolvable heterogeneous structures that do not appear fully formed and where functions and purposes are added, removed or modified along the life cycle; as well as managing emergent properties and behaviours of entire systems, e.g. resulting from integrating new systems being not localized to any single system component. Although the component systems keep their operational and managerial independence, when they are interconnected and integrated, collaboration, cooperation and competition relationships, appear all along three major collaboration axes (lifecycle, value chain and enterprise), which should be understood, controlled and managed. In this work an effort to examine those systems under the prism of System of Systems approach, and address first recommendations to determine architectures, evolutionary steps, benefits, roadblocks as well as migration approaches that need to be followed is presented.

Migration of industrial process control systems into service oriented architecture

The procedure of migrating SCADA and DCS functionality of the ISA-95 process automation architecture to a Service based automation architecture is discussed. Challenges in such migration are discussed and defined. From here the necessary migration technology and procedures are proposed. The critical migration technology is based on the mediator concept. The migration procedure is based on a functionality perspective and comprises four steps: initiation, configuration, data processing and control execution. Its argued that these steps are necessary for the successful migration of DCS and SCADA functionality in to the automation cloud.

Towards the Next Generation of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Intelligent networked embedded systems and technologies, ranging from components and software to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) [1], are of increasing importance to the ICT supply industry, system integrators and all major mainstream sectors of the economy [9]. Development of new technologies for provisioning innovative services and products can lead to new business opportunities for the industry. Monitoring and Control are seen as key for achieving visions in several CPS dominated areas such as industrial automation systems, automotive electronics, telecommunication equipments, smart-grid, building controls, digitally driven smart cities, home automation, greener transport, water and wastewater management, medical and health infrastructures, online public services and many others [10]. This chapter introduces cloud-based industrial CPS and describes the first results of making it a reality for the Next Generation SOA-based SCADA/DCS systems. The reader can learn about the research, development and innovation work carried out by a set of experts collaborating under the umbrella of the IMC-AESOP project, for specifying, developing, implementing and demonstrating the major features of Intelligent Monitoring and Control Systems and the advantages of implementing them in different industrial process control environments.

Integration of Legacy Devices in the Future SOA-based Factory

Abstract Future shop-floors are going to evolve as they need to be able to fully respond to dynamic adaptations and sophisticated interactions with the enterprise systems. This trend is fully backed up by the ever increasing capabilities of the new generation of devices that feature advanced communication as well as computational capabilities. However as the transition to the future infrastructure will be done progressively we need to make sure that the legacy devices can still be included and offer their benefits for non-interruptible business operation.

Integration of fieldbus systems into on-line asset management solutions based on fieldbus profile descriptions

The use of fieldbus installations enables access to device information important for advanced functions like synthesizing plant data for asset management. Until now, this information is used only inadequately, since this information can only be integrated into existing applications with considerable expenditure. The paper shows an object-oriented asset management solution based on fieldbus profile descriptions. It realizes an additional, self-configuring information channel between field and plant control level. Clients can access application modules via TCP/IP networks. These modules can be loaded dynamically at run time. They implement enhanced functionality suitable for asset management tasks.

PROTEUS - a European initiative for e-maintenance platform development

This account presents the foundation of PROTEUS project programme, which consists in designing and modeling of a distributed network orientation platform for integration of maintenance applications. The presentation is focused on basic requirements defining projects rationale and on the development of the platform.

Integration of Classical Components Into Industrial Cyber–Physical Systems

Industrial automation systems continuously get more complex and growing over time. This leads to an ever growing demand for efficient integration task bridging the gap between technologies, tools used across the enterprise, and alongside the value chain. With the new challenges imposed by introducing cyber-physical systems (CPSs) into industrial applications and while addressing Industry 4.0 concepts, the matter of integration is becoming even more crucial for the introduction of new technologies and their acceptance to customers. This paper introduces integration tasks to be tackled and describes up-to-date technologies as they are used in todays automation industry. This is the basis for concepts addressing the integration issue when introducing CPSs and establishing mixed systems. Investigations are made regarding exploiting integration strategies for future systems.