Paper Info
Title
A model driven approach to engineering of flexible manufacturing system control software
Abstract
Increasing the performance and flexibility of automated manufacturing systems is a key success factor for today's production companies. Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) have proven to be particularly suitable in this regard since they support small lot sizes and high numbers of variants at the same time. The most important problems facing FMS are the huge expenditure of time and the high costs for “engineering” its control software. Engineering in this context refers to all aspects from planning the concrete production process, to assigning machines to control programs, to implementing software modules, and to testing the whole configuration. In this paper, we describe a model driven approach to support consistent engineering of FMS control software. It makes use of UML and customized UML metamodels for FMS-specific features, and includes a prototype implementation based on open source. We report on first experiences with a real FMS running cosmos 4, a distributed, agent-oriented FMS control software.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11787044_6
ECMDA-FA
Keywords
Field
DocType
flexible manufacturing system control,high number,software module,concrete production process,consistent engineering,high cost,customized uml metamodels,control software,agent-oriented fms control software,fms control software,real fms,production process,software engineering
Software engineering,Unified Modeling Language,Simulation,Computer science,Software agent,Production planning,Flexible manufacturing system,Control logic,Metamodeling,Software development,Social software engineering,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4066
0302-9743
3-540-35909-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Brecher19639.81
Tilman Buchner210.70
Yong Cheng300.34
Matthias Jarke450711762.03
Dominik Schmitz55410.13