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Device adapter concept towards enabling plug-and-produce production environments
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posted on 2017-11-01, 15:04 authored by Kirill Dorofeev, Chih-Hong Cheng, Pedro FerreiraPedro Ferreira, Magno Guedes, Stefan Profanter, Alois ZoitlModern manufacturing systems require a transformation
from mass production towards mass customization. This
results in a trend towards more agile production lines. This
demands reduction of configuration times when building the
production line as well as faster reconfiguration when adding
new hardware and product variants to the manufacturing line.
This paper introduces the concept of a device adapter that allows
the device to be seamlessly plugged into the agile production
systems. The device adapter wraps the device functionality and
offers it as a service, hiding away the low-level process capability
(skill) implementation and allowing to formally represent the
production steps. Preliminary tests have been performed on
an industrial demonstrator that simulates real manufacturing
process.
Funding
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 680735, project openMOS (Open Dynamic Manufacturing Operating System for Smart Plug-and-Produce Automation Components).
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- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering