The Factory InfoStore: Using SoA to Easily Create Factory Applications

Date: October, 2013Linked to: RTD Research at FAST-Lab.

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Conference: The 9th conference of the European Technology Platform on Future Manufacturing Technologies (ETP ManuFuture) was held on 6-8 October 2013 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Title of the paper: The Factory InfoStore: Using SoA to Easily Create Factory ApplicationsAuthors: Jose L. Martinez Lastra

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The Factory InfoStore:Using SoA to Easily Create Factory Applications

Prof. Jose L. Martinez Lastralastra@ieee.org

FAST-Lab. Directorwww.tut.fi/fast

• SoA: Fundamentals (revisited)– Architecture

– Services

– (Semantic) Web Services

• Factory InfoStore• (examples of) Factory Applications• videos

Outline

• SoA: Fundamentals (revisited)– Architecture

– Services

– (Semantic) Web Services

• Factory InfoStore• (examples of) Factory Applications• videos

Outline

Service-oriented Architecture

• A Service is a software interface that encapsulates the functionality of a device or process

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SoA)– Service provider

– Service requestor

– Service broker

• The Service Broker is the mechanism for publishing and locating providers of a process

Service Broker

Service RequestorService Provider

Publ

ish

Search

Locate

Invoke

Service Interface

• Web Services– Ethernet and IP networks

– XML and SOAP

• Described by WSDL– Web Service Description Language

– XML request and response messages

DPWS stack

Web Services in Devices

• A service encapsulates a controlled process– Discrete operation

– A controlled and measurable change in the environment

• Varying granularity of services– From basic operations...

• E.g. a servo-translation

– ... to complex processes• E.g. a pick-and-place operation

• Complex processes can be– An orchestrated composition of basic operations

– An encapsulation of a legacy equipment

Web Services and Integration

• Same technology:– low-level devices

– machines

– factory information systems

– enterprise information systems

• Seamless vertical integration of heterogeneous elements

• Flexible information systems:– System architecture dictated by requirements, not by technology

Semantic Web Services OverviewMotivation• Desire to quickly (re)configure manufacturing systems

• Large variety and complexity of– Available services

– Required orchestrations

• Automate (partially) the engineering processes of selecting and composing services

• SoA: Fundamentals (revisited)– Architecture

– Services

– (Semantic) Web Services

• Factory InfoStore• (examples of) Factory Applications• videos

Outline

The Concept of Factory Application

The Concept of Factory Application

Some Benefits

• New potential biz opportunities for SMEs as producers of Factory Applications:– Encapsulation of their known how– Potential new solutions based on non-direct

information

• Benefits for SMEs as users of the Factory Applications:– Tailor made solutions– Transparent IT infrastructure (potentially

outsource to the cloud)

Factory InfoStore (an example)

• SoA: Fundamentals (revisited)– Architecture

– Services

– (Semantic) Web Services

• Factory InfoStore• (examples of) Factory Applications 1/2• videos

Outline

Machine VisualizationEmbedded HMI

Same data sourceSame interface

Different applicationsDifferent exe platforms

Same data sourceSame interface

Different applicationsDifferent exe platforms

From Silicon to the CloudFrom Silicon to the Cloud

Machine VisualizationHMI (Commercial Product)

Machine VisualizationHMI (3rd Party)

• SoA: Fundamentals (revisited)– Architecture

– Services

– (Semantic) Web Services

• Factory InfoStore• (examples of) Factory Applications 2/2• videos

Outline

Advanced Pallet information System APIS• The concept is scalable to wireless networks

deploying 6LowPAN• APIS provides the positioning information, in

real-time, of manufacturing carriers• By having the current position of each carrier

we can better control the production flow

Advanced Pallet information System

Advanced Pallet Information System

Advanced Pallet Information System

• SoA: Fundamentals (revisited)– Architecture

– Services

– (Semantic) Web Services

• Factory InfoStore• (examples of) Factory Applications• videos

Outline

Advanced Pallet information System APIS

http://youtu.be/d_iMLPx8-tw

2:38 -> 3:43

The Factory InfoStore:Using SoA to Easily Create

Factory Applications

lastra@ieee.orgwww.tut.fi/fast

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