Research on Dynamic Reconfigurable Manufacturing Process Model Based on Model Driven Architecture

Abstract

With the characteristic analysis of manufacturing process in various manufacture enterprises, Model Driven Architecture methodology is applied to construct dynamic reconfiguration manufacturing process model, which can solve the problems of portability, information integration, and interoperability effectively. A dynamic reconfigurable modeling process framework based on model driven Architecture is introduced for manufacture enterprises in this paper. It separates the manufacturing system functionality specification from its implementation on any specific technology platform, and makes the system reconfigurate the manufacturing progress through the transformation of models and transmission of information. Based on MDA methodology, a PIM was built with UML for dynamic reconfiguration manufacturing process model. Then, the PIM was transformed into several indispensable PSMs. At last, the integrated system was applied to a discreet manufacturing process and the application result proves that the system is practical and effective.