Content Driven Engineering Model System for Cyber Physical Systems

Abstract

Engineering model system is complex description and representation of an engineering structure. It serves as active media for all engineering activities during lifecycle of engineering structure. By now, engineering model system is capable of representation systems operated engineering structure and it can be configured to include organized experiments for engineering related research and development activities. Active knowledge is represented in engineering model system with the demand for integration of theory and practice. Recently, systems operated engineering structure is modeled as cyber physical system. Consequently, engineering modeling capabilities must be appropriate for description and representation of cooperating systems considering cyber and physical units. Despite their suitability for modeling systems, former analysis by the authors revealed that current engineering model systems would require organized knowledge background to support repeated and changed decisions on engineering object parameters in description and representation of engineering structure. To establish this background, former research introduced and defined a new concept called as information content. Model structure of information content was established as new integrated unit of engineering model system. Purpose of this paper is to introduce recent research results in rethinking and restructuring of information content for engineering model system which describe and represent cyber physical system. For that reason, extended engineering model system is given to answer how cyber physical system changes demand for information content in engineering model system. This is followed by introduction and discussion of cyber physical system eligible extended structure of information content representations. Connections are defined between information content and cyber physical system. Finally, implementation issues are discussed.