Engineering Methods and Tools for Cyber–Physical Automation Systems
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Much has been published about potential benefits of the adoption of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in manufacturing industry. However, less has been said about how such automation systems might be effectively configured and supported through their lifecycles and how application modeling, visualization, and reuse of such systems might be best achieved. It is vitally important to be able to incorporate support for engineering best practice while at the same time exploiting the potential that CPS has to offer in an automation systems setting. This paper considers the industrial context for the engineering of CPS. It reviews engineering approaches that have been proposed or adopted to date including Industry 4.0 and provides examples of engineering methods and tools that are currently available. The paper then focuses on the CPS engineering toolset being developed by the Automation Systems Group (ASG) in the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K. and explains via an industrial case study how such a component-based engineering toolset can support an integrated approach to the virtual and physical engineering of automation systems through their lifecycle via a method that enables multiple vendors' equipment to be effectively integrated and provides support for the specification, validation, and use of such systems across the supply chain, e.g., between end users and system integrators.
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- Authors
- Harrison, R., Vera, D., & Ahmad, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Warwick (GB)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- Published
- 2016-05
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 973-985
- ISSN
- 0018-9219 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-2256
- OpenAlex
- W2330559246
- Cited by
- 178
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 9
- FWCI
- 35.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the IEEE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- 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 › Control and Systems Engineering › Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications
- Keywords
- cyber-physical systems, Industry 4.0, system life cycle, equipment integration, supply chain collaboration, system integrators, manufacturing automation
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