Home // INTELLI 2016, The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications // View article

The ReBorn Marketplace: an Application Store for Industrial Smart Components

Authors:
Renato Fonseca
Susana Aguiar
Michael Peschl
Gil Gonçalves

Keywords: Smart Components; Smart Components Application Store; Intelligent Manufacturing Environments; Manufacturing Systems; Industrial Equipment Re-usability; ReBorn Paradigm

Abstract:
Rapid changing product portfolios and continuously evolving process technologies, require manufacturing systems that are themselves easily upgradeable and into which new technologies and new functions can be readily integrated. This new context creates the need for novel manufacturing equipment and control systems, that are able to cope with the increased complexity required to manage product and production variability in mass customized manufacturing. To achieve this agility, modern manufacturing environments need to encapsulate knowledge into sensors and machines turning them into Smart Components. Based on the concept of logical encapsulation of manufacturing industrial equipment, this paper proposes the creation of a marketplace for Smart Components. This marketplace organises and stores information of industrial machines, not only for potential customers to check and compare different devices, but essentially to allow for (semi)automatic update of the industrial equipment controllers and functionalities on the fly.

Pages: 136 to 141

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: November 13, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4065

ISBN: 978-1-61208-518-0

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 13, 2016 to November 17, 2016