Concept for Rule-Based Information Aggregation in Modular Production Plants

Abstract

AbstractIn the context of Industrie 4.0, (Self-)adapting Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) offer a solution for production facilities to adapt to changing market requirements. The operation of a CPPS requires information of the entire plant at any time, which can usually be derived by aggregating the individual information of the production modules of a CPPS (information models). Even if the information models are designed following standardized guidelines, the aggregation of these individual information models often needs to be done manually, which requires a lot of effort and is error prone. To achieve an automated information aggregation, this paper presents a novel concept for modular production plants. The main aspect of the concept is the use of a Rule Engine for the processing of information models in order to create aggregated plant information. This Rule Engine uses a classification method for plant components in order to enable standardization. The challenge of this work is to design a Rule Engine that is suitable for different aspects of CPPS.