Communication Mechanisms for Cloud based Machine Controls

Abstract Current machine tool controls are limited from a technical viewpoint in different areas like scalability, start-up and reconfiguration time and security of the process knowledge against unwanted access, to only name some of them. These limitations demand for a radically new concept for machine controls addressing current and future requirements. The chosen approach is to split the physical location of the machine tool control from the machine tool and move the control in a cloud providing machine control as a service (MCaaS). This paper presents the concept of how the communication between machine and cloud-based control could be realized.