Developing Interfaces Based on Services to the Cloud Manufacturing: Plug and Produce

Abstract

In the last decade the industrial automation had been making important changes integrating Internet and other emergent technologies, concepts, methods and tools, as cloud computing and Service Oriented Architecture(SOA) approaches. As a first consequence, the industrial automation context is also increasing in complexity, presenting new challenges for engineers and managers. Examples include dealing with autonomous cyber physical systems, evolvable heterogeneous structures that do not appear completely formed and where functions and goal are added, removed or modified along the life cycle, as well as handling emergent properties and behaviours of entire systems, e.g. resulting from integrating new systems being not localized to any single system component. [1]. The objective of this paper is to make a review in industrial automation background, analyze the technological trends and challenges and propose a flexible and autoconfigurable service-oriented model, making up basis for the cloud manufacturing. In this model the entities are loosely coupled, due the fact that a service’s functionality communication is showed through its interfaces.