Rapid development of a distributed shop floor control system from an XML model-based control software specification
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- Title
- Rapid development of a distributed shop floor control system from an XML model-based control software specification
- Authors
- Shin, J; Cho, H
- Date Issued
- 2006-01-15
- Publisher
- TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Abstract
- As the level of distribution in a shop floor grows, the development of a distributed Shop Floor Control System (SFCS) is of significant interest. Since hand-woven control software is expensive and difficult to reconfigure, a formal methodology that supports generating control software rapidly is in need of exploitation. Although a number of approaches on such purposes have been presented, they lack some of following characteristics: (1) ease of modelling a nature of a distributed SFCS, (2) rapid modelling capability, (3) integrity between specification and development methodologies, and (4) automatic software development capability. The objective of the paper is to propose a rapid development methodology that fulfils given characteristics through a formal model-based control software specification. Specifically, formal models, a resource model and an Monitoring-Decision making-Execution (M-D-E) model are proposed to specify Unit of Control Devices (UCDs) and their control processes performed in a distributed manner. The formal models are represented in the XML format to make them neutral to any model-building or development tools. In addition, the distributed SFCS control engine, a middleware for rapid development, is proposed to develop control software automatically from the XML-compliant formal models. As a result, the proposed set of formal models and control engine organizes the rapid development methodology most appropriate for a distributed SFCS.
- Keywords
- control software specification; automatic software development; distributed shop floor control; XML-based formal model; MANUFACTURING CONTROL-SYSTEMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH; PETRI NETS; ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; FRAMEWORK; FMS
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/24240
- DOI
- 10.1080/00207540500269291
- ISSN
- 0020-7543
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH, vol. 44, no. 2, page. 329 - 350, 2006-01-15
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