Manufacturing Execution System Integration through the Standardization of a Common Service Model for Cyber-Physical Production Systems

Digital transformation and artificial intelligence are creating an opportunity for innovation across all levels of industry and are transforming the world of work by enabling factories to embrace cutting edge Information Technologies (ITs) into their manufacturing processes. Manufacturing Execution...

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Published inApplied sciences Vol. 11; no. 16; p. 7581
Main Authors Beregi, Richárd, Pedone, Gianfranco, Háy, Borbála, Váncza, József
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2021
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Artificial intelligence
Automation
Collaboration
cyber-physical production system
Decision making
Digitization
industry 4.0
Intelligence
Interoperability
Manufacturing
manufacturing execution system
Manufacturing execution systems
Manufacturing industry
Modelling
Nervous system
OPC UA
Operations management
Robotics
Standardization
Telemetry
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Summary:Digital transformation and artificial intelligence are creating an opportunity for innovation across all levels of industry and are transforming the world of work by enabling factories to embrace cutting edge Information Technologies (ITs) into their manufacturing processes. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MESs) are abandoning their traditional role of legacy executing middle-ware for embracing the much wider vision of functional interoperability enablers among autonomous, distributed, and collaborative Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS). In this paper, we propose a basic methodology for universally modeling, digitalizing, and integrating services offered by a variety of isolated workcells into a single, standardized, and augmented production system. The result is a reliable, reconfigurable, and interoperable manufacturing architecture, which privileges Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) and its rich possibilities for information modeling at a higher level of the common service interoperability, along with Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) lightweight protocols at lower levels of data exchange. The proposed MES architecture has been demonstrated and validated in several use-cases at a research manufacturing laboratory of excellence for industrial testbeds.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app11167581