Abstract
The aim of this paper is to address the problem of remote control of manufacturing systems for maintenance, object conception and production purposes.
 We present a global approach of this problem according to two research axis: the genericity of the platform according to the underlying device, and the security of the data and information systems. The primary goal of this paper is to describe the framework that allows the remote control, and especially its independence to the devices. We propose a special study on the security issues in such architecture by explaining why we have made the choice of adopting identity federation technologies as a mean to reach remote devices hosted in different Information Systems. We also describe how this kind of systems can be used in a collaborative way in order to build a real extended entreprise for e-manufacturing systems.
Highlights
ABOUT REMOTE MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS IN INDUSTRYManufacturing industry worldwide has been facing unprecedent challenges due to the globalization of markets, the increase of robustness and agility on the supply chains
One of the main advantage of aim of e-manufacturing is the ability to monitor the plant floor assets, and predict the variation and performance loss for dynamic rescheduling of production and maintenance operations, and synchronize with other related business actions to achieve a complete integration between manufacturing systems and upper-level enterprise applications.Since the introduction of this concept in the earlier of this century, there is a lot of works that have been done in different scientific fields, mainly on the supply chain management and on the interoperability of information systems to smooth the difficulties of data exchanges
The approach we propose in this paper is to show how to interact directly on the production systems or on the remote information systems in order to build a complete remote e-manufacturing system
Summary
Manufacturing industry worldwide has been facing unprecedent challenges due to the globalization of markets, the increase of robustness and agility on the supply chains. E-commerce and Internet technologies injected “velocity” into the front business activities and enabled companies to shift their manufacturing operations from the traditional factory integration philosophy to a supply chain-based e-factory philosophy It transforms companies from a local factory focus to a global enterprise and business focus. We address the problem of taking the control on a physical device through the Internet, focusing on device independence (a solution of remote e-manufacturing framework that is not supposed to be dedicated to the device it supports) Such an approach is known as Remote Laboratories, and tries to cope with the lack of remote hands-on approaches within distance learning or remote services in industrial fields.
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