Potential Impact for Energy Consumption with Service Oriented Architecture

Abstract

High competition, globalization, business process outsourcing, and rising regulatory environments and demanding consumers are forcing enterprises to transform the way they provide their business and services. The implementation of service oriented architecture (SOA) in manufacturing can meet requirements for frequently changing market demands, global competition, rising require production systems concerning flexibility and adaptability. This article will discuss the SOA approach and its potential impact for energy consumption and energy reduction related in industry. Nowadays we meet new industrial control systems providing lower time-to market and shorter product cycles. The inflexible communication infrastructure between the manufacturing process elements difficulties the adoption of porting production with high degree of reconfigurability and interoperability. The adoption of a SOA can bring real benefits to the industrial automation communication. Service-oriented architecture provides a flexible, open solution for manufacturing plants. We are facing a new era with the necessity of convergence of solution and higher integration, it can be provided combining services in a cross-layer form. In this scenario we meet an ecosytem (systems to systems) interaction, information available in near real-time, with process being orchestred in a higher level and with higher scale. This article will describe SOA approach and explain the expected results for end users, suppliers and society with optimization of energy consumption.