Service-oriented Process Control with Grafchart and the Devices Profile for Web Services
Author
Editor
- Theodor Borangiu
- Andre Thomas
- Damien Trentesaux
Summary, in English
To fulfill increasing requirements within the manufacturing sector, highly flexible and adaptable automation systems are needed. It is desirable to have one integrated approach that stretches from the process planning phase, through the implementation phase and all the way to the phase for execution of the process control logics. One promising approach is to use the concepts of service-oriented architectures within automation, here referred to as SOA-AT. As service technology, DPWS has proved to be the most suitable for realizing
service based communication on device level. The paper shows how Grafchart, a graphical language aimed for sequential control applications, can support the development of DPWS applications, and how Grafchart can be used for process modeling and execution in the planning and execution phase. This constitutes a unique framework for the development and execution of SOA applications in accordance with the requirements for automatic control tasks. The paper also presents an industry-related experimental setup in which the SOA-AT concepts are demonstrated through the use of Grafchart.
service based communication on device level. The paper shows how Grafchart, a graphical language aimed for sequential control applications, can support the development of DPWS applications, and how Grafchart can be used for process modeling and execution in the planning and execution phase. This constitutes a unique framework for the development and execution of SOA applications in accordance with the requirements for automatic control tasks. The paper also presents an industry-related experimental setup in which the SOA-AT concepts are demonstrated through the use of Grafchart.
Department/s
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Pages
213-227
Publication/Series
Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing and Robotics: Studies in Computational Intelligence
Volume
472
Full text
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Control Engineering
Keywords
- Service oriented architecture
- Devices Profile for Web Services
- Grafchart
- Flexible manufacturing systems
- Web Services
- Graphical languages
- Agile manufacturing
- Manufacturing control
- Process modeling
- Production control
- Control systems
- Automation systems
Status
Published
Project
- LCCC
Research group
- LCCC
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-3-642-35851-7