Semantic-Based Approach for Low-Effort Engineering of Automation Systems

Industry 4.0, also referred to as the fourth industrial revolution aims at mass customized production with low-cost and shorter production time. Automation Systems (ASs) used in the manufacturing processes should be flexible to meet the constantly changing needs of mass customized production. Low-effort engineering of an Automation System (AS) is an important requirement towards this goal. Secondly, transparency and interoperability of ASs across different domains open a new class of applications. In order to address these challenges we propose a low-effort approach to engineer, configure and re-engineer an AS by employing Web of Things and Semantic Web Technologies. The approach allows for creating semantic specification for a new functionality or an application. It automatically checks whether a target AS can run a new functionality. We developed an engineering tool with a graphical user interface for our approach that enables an engineer to easily interact with an AS when discovering its functionality, engineering, configuring and deploying new functionality on it.

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