A formal engineering approach for industrial SoA-based systems of systems

• Published in: Architecture for Service-Oriented Process – Monitoring and Control p. 1956
• Main Authors: Nagorny, Kevin, Freijo, Elena, Colombo, Armando Walter, Delsing, Jerker
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Industrial Electronics; Industriell elektronik
• DOI: 10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505978
• ISBN: 9781467345699; 1467345695

Current implemented manufacturing and continuous production process systems are strongly being influenced by the fusion of mechatronics, communication, control and information technologies [2][3][4][5]. The miniaturization of control and automation devices with embedded intelligence is transforming the production systems into a very large infrastructure, where different systems interact in a structural and behavioral manner for pursuing common goals [17][16]. The result is a very large complex system-of systems (SoS) [19][24]. The application of the service-oriented architecture paradigm is appearing as a promising approach to develop and implement the control and management of those SoS [26].This paper describes an approach to support the engineering of service-oriented based Industrial System-of-Systems and presents the first results of application of the approach to a real heterogeneous system composed of a district-heating, transportation and an electrical power distribution system.