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- Digitalized and harmonized industrial production systems: the PERFoRM approachPublication . Colombo, Armando W.; Gepp, Michael; Barata, José; Leitão, Paulo; Barbosa, José; Wermann, JeffreyOn the one side, Industrial competitiveness today means shorter product lifecycles, increased product variety, and shorter times to market and customized tangible products and services. To face these challenges, the manufacturing industry is forced to move from traditional management, control, and automation approaches towards industrial cyber-physical systems. On the other side, several emergent engineering approaches and related Information-Communication-Control-Technologies, such as Multi-Agent-Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture, Plug-and-Produce Systems, Cloud and Fog Technologies, Big Data and Analytics, among others, have been researched during the last years. The confluence of those results with the latest developments in Industrial Digitalization, Systems-of-Cyber-Physical-Systems Engineering, Internet-of-Things, Internet-of-Services, and Industry 4.0 is opening a new broad spectrum of innovation possibilities. The PERFoRM (Production-harmonizEd-Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery) approach is one of them. It teaches the reader what it means when production machines and systems are digitalized and migrated into Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems and what happens when they are networked and start collaborating with each other and with the human, using the internet. After a Technology Trend Screening and beyond a comprehensive state-of-the-art analysis about Industrial Digitalization and Industry 4.0-compliant solutions, the book introduces methods, architectures, and technologies applicable in real industrial use cases, explained for a broad audience of researchers, practitioners, and industrialists
- Integration and deployment of a distributed and pluggable industrial architecture for the PERFoRM projectPublication . Angione, Giacomo; Barbosa, José; Gosewehr, Frederik; Leitão, Paulo; Massa, Daniele; Matos, João; Peres, Ricardo Silva; Rocha, André Dionísio; Wermann, JeffreyTo meet flexibility and reconfigurability requirements, modern production systems need hardware and software solutions which ease the connection and mediation of different and heterogonous industrial cyber-physical components. Following the vision of Industry 4.0, the H2020 PERFoRM project targets, particularly, the seamless reconfiguration of robots and machinery. This paper describes the implementation of a highly flexible, pluggable and distributed architecture solution, focusing on several building blocks, particularly a distributed middleware, a common data model and standard interfaces and technological adapters, which can be used for connecting legacy systems (such as databases) with simulation, visualization and reconfiguration tools.
- Migration strategy toward innovative, digitalized, and harmonized production systemsPublication . Cala, Ambra; Cachada, Ana; Pires, Flávia; Barbosa, José; Wermann, Jeffrey; Colombo, Armando W.Industry today is facing the fourth Industrial Revolution, also called Industry 4.0, pulled by the market demand of shorter delivery time and product life cycles, with increased product variety and smaller lot sizes, and pushed by innovative technologies, such as Cloud computing, big-data analysis, connected Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), Internet of Things, and related services, as well as autonomous robots and augmented reality. Industry 4.0 is an industrial paradigm that is proposing to transform the traditional factories into smart factories, which are more competitive, efficient, and productive. The goal is the rapid introduction of new tangible products and intangible products (services) into the market as soon as market and customer requirements change. In order to achieve this goal, the production process itself should be more agile and particularly correctly digitalized.