Reposition Cyber-Physical System to Minimizing the Gap between Cyber and Physical

Abstract

To realize smart manufacturing in Industry 4.0, we have to employ a lot of sensors to capture manufacturing information to identify the current status of production lines. On other hand, the job coordinator should assign tasks according to not only equipment status in production lines but also management systems, such as enterprise resource planning system and manufacturing execution system. A possible solution of the job coordinator is the cyber-physical system (CPS). CPS evaluate the production capability by equipment status and management systems via the manufacturing data. In most considerations of CPS, adjusting the setting of production lines to fit the requirements from management systems, e.g. the received orders. However, it is hard to reach smart manufacturing in the above consideration. From our empirical observation, not only the setting of production lines should be adjusted, but also the management systems should also be adjusted for finding a balance purpose. Therefore, we present a novel idea to generate the decision for reaching optimal producing for CPS.