Semantic Models and Processes for Information Gathering and Interactive Workflow Execution in Decentralized Production Environme
More information than needed is available in today's IT-based production environments, while the right information is often hidden or unreachable for humans thanks information overload. The solution of this becomes even more important where rapid reconfiguration and virtual/network enterprises must lead to a decentralized system structure and information architecture. While the machines become increasingly "intelligent" with more powerful processors it has become possible to not only program them mainly via remote control but to deliver detailed status information and sensor data. To date, most of this generated information is wasted in the archives of the machines, only read in case of upcoming machine failures. New approaches like decentralized peer-to-peer production networks provide new possibilities to exploit this information in a context-oriented manner and take a step beyond Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). Production Cockpits are able to assemble collected data filtered on several layers and to decide which data are important enough to be presented to the user. This paper presents an approach for collecting and aggregating the data using semantic information as well as semantically enriched interactive processes for execution – supporting the concept of process execution in decentralized environments.
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Dear Adebayo,
thank you for your question. INT-MANUS is a European research project (www.int-manus.org). The short answer is SCCP (the INT-MANUS platform) is both. It is an agent- or peer-based system that interconnects all intelligent pieces in the factory running the peer software. This includes numerical controls (CNC), terminals, computers etc. The network is decentralized and dynamic, which means that peers can drop out, the network can split or join without having a single point of failure in the system. The data filtering you mention is on a semantic level, which means message and data classifcation are used by the peers to route messages (data, commands, ...) to the appropriate receiver by interpreting classifications etc.
Hope this answers your question. Just let me know if some information is missing.
Best regards,
Thomas
Dear Authors,
Thank you for contributing this paper to IPROMS 2007 virtual conference. On page 2 of your paper, you gave a description of INT-MANUS architecture. Is INT-MANUS a network of inter-connected computers or a piece of software that implements an algorithm for data filtering and assembling?
Thank you
Adebayo