Mendes, João M.Sousa, JoséLeitão, PauloColombo, Armando W.Restivo, Francisco2010-01-272010-01-272008Mendes, João M.; Sousa, José; Leitão, Paulo; Colombo, Armando W.; Restivo, Francisco (2008) . Router-scheduler for the modular anatomy of service-oriented automation components. In Proceedings of the 6th CIRP International Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering. Naples, Italy. p.585-590. ISBN: 978-88-900-948-7-3978-88-900-948-7-3http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1524Automation and production systems are evolving in the direction of autonomous and collaborative components, approaching the idea of an ecosystem. A single habitant of this system is responsible for different and concurrent activities and thus it requires a special adapted anatomy that is balanced for the several requirements. This work introduces an anatomical-like structure for the development of functional and reusable modules of service-oriented automation components. The central attention will be given to their internal structure and the mechanism that bind the modules together, called the Event Router-Scheduler. The resulting software automation components are customized for different tasks due to the inclusion and management of the specialized functional modules and provide the ability to operate in a service-oriented automation and production environment.engService-oriented architectureComponent-based automationManufacturing systemsconference object