Towards Smart Factory: Multi-Agent Integration on Industrial Standards for Service-oriented Communication and Semantic Data Exchange

The concept of smart factories in the industry 4.0 (I40) paradigm is based on the concept of cyberphysical systems which is more specifically elaborated within the concept of the smart manufacturing component. In that concept an arbitrary production asset is assigned to an administration shell, that covers partial models and services for arbitrary functions. The desired attributes of smart factories to be self-organized, self-optimized, self-learning, etc. is based on the idea of an intelligent cooperation between the smart manufacturing components. However, the actual performing of this co-operation is not appropriately elaborated yet. In this paper the approach of a Multi-AgentSystem to be applied as a well elaborated mean for intelligent co-operation of smart manufacturing components shall overcome this lack. Furthermore the application of existing standards for service-oriented industrial communication infrastructure by OPC-UA and for semantic data exchange by AutomationML provides existing means for realizing the required connectivity and interoperability for intelligent co-operation that shall realize self-X capabilities of smart factories.

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