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Implementing Industry 4.0 Asset Administrative Shells in Mini Factories
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Physical assets in manufacturing, can be: machines, sensors, actuators and in general everything that can be part of the plant and its processes. In such domain, the search for “agility” has come to be one of the most requested features. As a result, considerable research has been conducted to design manufacturing systems which embody manufacturing flexibility. It is in this context where the evolution of the supply-chain based concept of Mini Factories is relevant, as it allows a network-like interconnectivity between assets by setting up factories inside the premises of the principal manufacturer. It is stated that at the core of Industry 4.0 implementation, every asset (e.g. a machine, software, sensor or actuator, etc.), should be modeled via an Asset Administrative Shell (AAS). AAS is a knowledge structure that provides a description of the asset, its technical functionality and its relationships to other assets. It can be viewed as the bridge between the physical world and the IoT world or, in other words, the data model from where the digital twin stems from. In this paper we present a methodology to create Asset Administrative Shells in a Mini Factories context. We argue that our approach, effectively embodies concepts related to Industry 4.0 in a modular way, allowing the much-desired agility. By using our proposed methodology, Model Factory @ARTC has been able to create a seamless integration of assets into our factory of the future, demonstrating the connectivity and some of the enhanced capabilities of Industry 4.0.
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An AAS containing an OPC UA Server according to the IEC 61131-3 specification was proposed to address the problem of existing fieldbus protocols.
“However, addressing the problem of existing fieldbus protocols, an AAS containing an OPC UA Server according to the IEC 61131-3 specification was proposed in [124]”
From SCADA Systems With Focus on Continuous Manufacturing and Steel Industry: A Survey on Architectures, Standards, Challenges and Industry 5.0 (2022) · cites this paper as [124]
In Stage 3: AAS Connectivity with the real asset (page unavailable), the paper says an OPC UA tree for server and client can be created from an AAS model. It does not describe a proposed AAS containing an OPC UA server according to IEC 61131-3, or identify existing fieldbus protocols as the problem that proposal addresses. Its example instead uses RESTful API connectivity. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Seif, A., Toro, C., & Akhtar, H.
- Affiliations
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (SG)
- Corresponding author
- Seif, Alejandro
- Venue
- Procedia Computer Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019
- Volume
- 159
- Pages
- 495-504
- ISSN
- 1877-0509 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2980533397
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 5.44
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Procedia Computer Science (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (STAR, A1723a0035)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Digital Transformation in Industry
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › BIM and Construction Integration
- Keywords
- Industry 4.0, mini-factories, digital twin, manufacturing agility, production flexibility, Internet of Things, model factory, factory of the future
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