Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture for Production Planning and Control: A Comprehensive Review and Novel Approach

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Authors

  • Sebastian Behrendt
  • Florian Stamer
  • Marvin Carl May
  • Gisela Lanza

The trends of shorter product lifecycles, customized products, and volatile market environments require manufacturers to reconfigure their production increasingly frequent to maintain competitiveness and customer satisfaction. More frequent reconfigurations, however, are linked to increased efforts in production planning and control (PPC). This poses a challenge for manufacturers, especially in regard of demographic change and shortage of qualified labour, since many tasks in PPC are performed manually by domain experts. Following the paradigm of software-defined manufacturing, this paper targets to enable a higher degree of automation and interoperability in PPC by applying the concepts of service-oriented architecture. As a result, production planners are empowered to orchestrate tasks in PPC without consideration of underlying implementation details. At first, it is investigated how tasks in PPC can be represented as services with the aim of encapsulation and reusability. Secondly, a software architecture based on asset administration shells is presented that allows connection to production data sources and enables integration and usage of such PPC services. In this sense, an approach for mapping asset administrations shells to OpenAPI Specifications is proposed for interoperable and semantic integration of existing services and legacy systems. Lastly, challenges and potential solutions for data integration are discussed considering the present heterogeneity of data sources in manufacturing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Conference on Production Systems and Logistics: CPSL 2023 - 2
EditorsDavid Herberger, Marco Hübner
Number of pages13
Place of PublicationHannover
PublisherPublish-Ing in cooperation with TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library
Publication date2023
Pages255-267
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event5th Conference on Production Systems and Logistics - CPSL 2023 - University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Duration: 14.11.202317.11.2023
Conference number: 5

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    Research areas

  • asset administration shell, Industry4.0, interoperability, service-oriented architecture, Service-oriented production
  • Engineering

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