Abstract
Although Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) provides a paradigm to accommodate frequent changes in manufacturing sector, modeling and managing operations of CPS are challenging issues due to the complex interactions between entities in the system. Development of an effective context-aware workflow management system to guide the entities in the system is a critical factor to attain the potential benefits of CPS. In this paper, we will address the issue on the design of context-aware workflow management systems for CPS in IoT-enabled manufacturing environment. A CPS consists two parts, the Physical World and the Cyber World. To achieve the goal to design a context-aware information system for CPS, the Cyber World models of the entities in the system are constructed based on discrete timed Petri nets (DTPN) and a multi-agent system architecture in which each entity in the system is modeled as an agent to capture the interactions of entities in CPS. To develop context-aware workflow management systems for CPS, a Configuration/Scheduling Feasibility Problem and a Context Generation Problem in CPS are formulated. A condition for configuration/scheduling feasibility based on transformation of the Cyber World Models is established to develop an algorithm to generate contextual information to guide the operation of CPS. The proposed method is illustrated by examples. A series of experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the practicality of the proposed method in terms of computation time and response time. The results indicate that the computation time and total response time increase polynomially with respect to problem size parameters and show that the proposed method is effective in solving real problems.
Highlights
Pressure due to frequent changes in demand from customers, global competition, environmental protection and global warming has posed new challenges in manufacturing sector
Development of an effective context-aware information management system to guide the entities in the system is a critical factor to attain the potential benefits of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
World model with a discrete timed Petri nets (DTPN), a place is used to represent a state in the bly operations, the workflow model proposed in this paper extends the one defined in workflow and a transition is used to represent an event that can bring the workflow from one state to another
Summary
Pressure due to frequent changes in demand from customers, global competition, environmental protection and global warming has posed new challenges in manufacturing sector. These challenges include how to achieve manufacturing agility to meet changing demands, how to develop flexible organization structure, and how to adopt emerging paradigms to face global competition by taking advantage of advanced information technology and manufacturing technology. Adoption of information technology in conjunction with advanced manufacturing technology and flexible organizational structure to achieve manufacturing agility and meet changing demands is a key issue for businesses to face global competition and attain sustainability. CPS combines mechatronics, ICT and computational decision-making components to control physical processes and systems to provide intelligence, responsiveness and adaptation [9]
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