Versatile edge gateway for improving manufacturing supply chain management via collaborative networks

ABSTRACT As a natural consequence of Industry 4.0 demands related to industrial processes control digitization, the smart manufacturing (SM) concept was enriched by integrating advanced technologies of digital information processing. This paper presents an original solution for improving the most representative instance of SM, namely, supply chain management (SCM), by using the most recent approach in hierarchical networked control systems (HNCS), that is Edge Computing. The paper presents both the software and hardware architecture of an Edge Gateway device which offers, on one hand, dual communication both on vertical (between the network layers from the local, inferior, represented by IIoT, to the central, superior, represented by the Cloud) and on horizontal (between similar devices located on the same Edge level) and, on the other hand, can locally process data to take fast decisions which facilitate real-time process control. The validity of the proposed solution is supported by a case study performed on a flexible assembly/disassembly line (laboratory model).

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