Design of a Flexible Skill-Based Process Control System Considering Process-Relevant Properties
The Industry 4.0 research initiative strives to facilitate globally interconnected, flexible, and highly adaptable production systems. The use of skill-based control mechanisms such as OPC UA skills offers the prospect of a straightforward and flexible interchange, as well as the seamless integratio...
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| author | Aleksandra Müller Steffen Wurm Phil Willecke Oliver Petrovic Werner Herfs Christian Brecher |
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| description | The Industry 4.0 research initiative strives to facilitate globally interconnected, flexible, and highly adaptable production systems. The use of skill-based control mechanisms such as OPC UA skills offers the prospect of a straightforward and flexible interchange, as well as the seamless integration of individual participants and processes through standardized interfaces. Furthermore, by enhancing these skills with evaluation parameters pertinent to the processes, such as CO<sub>2</sub> equivalents or the duration of specific skill executions, a foundation is laid for creating a customizable and adaptable composition of processes based on specific production process needs. In this article, the OPC UA skill concept is expanded with process-relevant properties, and a structured procedure for the introduction of skill-based process control is presented. The developed concept was implemented and tested on an industrial use case of glass pane completion. The aim of this publication is to demonstrate the potential of skill-based process control that has an integrated assessment of skills. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e61b5833caa84447b45e923134fcde6a2024-02-23T15:25:07ZengMDPI AGMachines2075-17022024-02-0112214210.3390/machines12020142Design of a Flexible Skill-Based Process Control System Considering Process-Relevant PropertiesAleksandra Müller0Steffen Wurm1Phil Willecke2Oliver Petrovic3Werner Herfs4Christian Brecher5Laboratory for Machine Tools WZL, Chair for Machine Tools, Steinbachstraße 19, DE 52074 Aachen, GermanyLaboratory for Machine Tools WZL, Chair for Machine Tools, Steinbachstraße 19, DE 52074 Aachen, GermanyLaboratory for Machine Tools WZL, Chair for Machine Tools, Steinbachstraße 19, DE 52074 Aachen, GermanyLaboratory for Machine Tools WZL, Chair for Machine Tools, Steinbachstraße 19, DE 52074 Aachen, GermanyLaboratory for Machine Tools WZL, Chair for Machine Tools, Steinbachstraße 19, DE 52074 Aachen, GermanyLaboratory for Machine Tools WZL, Chair for Machine Tools, Steinbachstraße 19, DE 52074 Aachen, GermanyThe Industry 4.0 research initiative strives to facilitate globally interconnected, flexible, and highly adaptable production systems. The use of skill-based control mechanisms such as OPC UA skills offers the prospect of a straightforward and flexible interchange, as well as the seamless integration of individual participants and processes through standardized interfaces. Furthermore, by enhancing these skills with evaluation parameters pertinent to the processes, such as CO<sub>2</sub> equivalents or the duration of specific skill executions, a foundation is laid for creating a customizable and adaptable composition of processes based on specific production process needs. In this article, the OPC UA skill concept is expanded with process-relevant properties, and a structured procedure for the introduction of skill-based process control is presented. The developed concept was implemented and tested on an industrial use case of glass pane completion. The aim of this publication is to demonstrate the potential of skill-based process control that has an integrated assessment of skills.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/12/2/142OPC UA skillsskill-based controlparameter evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Aleksandra Müller Steffen Wurm Phil Willecke Oliver Petrovic Werner Herfs Christian Brecher Design of a Flexible Skill-Based Process Control System Considering Process-Relevant Properties Machines OPC UA skills skill-based control parameter evaluation |
| title | Design of a Flexible Skill-Based Process Control System Considering Process-Relevant Properties |
| title_full | Design of a Flexible Skill-Based Process Control System Considering Process-Relevant Properties |
| title_fullStr | Design of a Flexible Skill-Based Process Control System Considering Process-Relevant Properties |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of a Flexible Skill-Based Process Control System Considering Process-Relevant Properties |
| title_short | Design of a Flexible Skill-Based Process Control System Considering Process-Relevant Properties |
| title_sort | design of a flexible skill based process control system considering process relevant properties |
| topic | OPC UA skills skill-based control parameter evaluation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/12/2/142 |
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