Meta models for intralogistics

at - Automatisierungstechnik, vol. 68, pp. 208–221

Abstract

Abstract In industrial automation, adaptability is a key feature that can enhance the degree of autonomy in a plant sparing engineering months and costs. With the introduction of the service oriented architecture in control automation, a topology model is required to identify the vicinity relationships between the devices. Nowadays, due to the absence of the coupling between logistic aspects and control logic, the topology models are manually constructed which consequently affects the autonomy of the procedures generation. In this contribution, we introduce a concept to couple the logistics model with the devices abilities to generate product flow paths and procedures considering adaptable conditions.

Authors 2

1. Haitham Elfaham corresponding Aachen Chair of Process Control Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Chair of Process Control Engineering , RWTH Aachen University , Aachen , Germany

2. Ulrich Epple Aachen Chair of Process Control Engineering

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Chair of Process Control Engineering , RWTH Aachen University , Aachen , Germany