This paper discusses the potentials of using web standards for automation control in manufacturing systems. It provides background on technology trends in manufacturing automation over recent decades. It then describes the authors' approach called eScop, which uses service-orientation, knowledge representation, and web standards. The eScop approach includes device, representation, orchestration, and visualization layers. It presents a use case and discusses how these layers integrate. It also demonstrates a web-based factory simulator called FASTory. The paper concludes that web standards can improve compatibility with future technologies by providing an open ecosystem and simplicity through a web orientation.

1. Potentials of web standards for automation
control in manufacturing systems
Date: October, 2015
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Conference: UKSim-­AMSS 9th European
Modelling Symposium on Mathematical
Modelling and Computer Simulation,
Madrid, 6 – 8 October 2015
Title of the paper: Potentials of web
standards for automation control in
manufacturing systems
Authors: Borja Ramis Ferrer, Sergii
Iarovyi, Andrei Lobov, José L. Martinez
Lastra
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2. Potentials of web standards for
automation control in
manufacturing systems
Authors: Borja Ramis Ferrer, Sergii Iarovyi, Andrei Lobov, José L. Martinez Lastra
{borja.ramisferrer, sergii.iarovyi, andrei.lobov, jose.lastra}@tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology
Factory Automation Systems and Technology Lab
UKSim-­AMSS 9th European Modelling Symposium on Mathematical
Modelling and Computer Simulation, Madrid, 6 – 8 October 2015

3. Outline
Potentials of web standards for automation control in
manufacturing systems – EMS2015
• Introduction
• Technology timeline
• 2010…? Our perspective
• The semantic web
• Linked data in manufacturing systems
• Manufacturing execution systems
• The eScop approach
• OKD-­MES layers
• Use case
• Integrating different layers
• FASTory simulator
• Conclusions and further work

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
Introduction
• Large investment on information communication
technologies implementation during last decades for
optimizing processes in manufacturing systems due to
market demands
• This caused the implementation of paradigms as
service-­oriented and event-­driven architectures in
factories, used for wide data integration
• On the other hand, the use of knowledge representation
permitted the description of system status in
knowledge bases, which can be queried and updated at
runtime.

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
Technology timeline (1/2)
60s:
PLC born
ARPANET
70s:
Terminals,
Networking,
PC
80s:
Networking
(MAP)
Ethernet
90s:
IEC61131-­3
the Internet
00s:
IEC61499
Web
standards

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
Technology timeline (2/2)
60s:
Teletype
ARPANET
70s:
Graphics
terminals,
Unix
PC
80s: GUI
Ethernet
90s:
Smartphone
the Internet
00s:
Cloud
computing
(Platforms)
Web standards
cluster
controller
dumb
terminal
dumb
terminal
printer
PC
PC
server
PC
server
Technology
-­agnostic
Cloud

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
2010…? Our perspective

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
The semantic web
http://www.opte.org/maps/tests/

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
Linked data in manufacturing
systems

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
Manufacturing Execution Systems
Source: Kletti, J. (2007). Manufacturing execution systems-­MES.

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
The eScop approach
• Cyber-­Physical Systems
• Service-­Orientation
• Knowledge as a Drive
• OKD-­MES
Web Standards

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
OKD-­MES Device layer

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
OKD-­MES Representation layer (1)
Source: Benjamin Nowack, J. (2009). http://bnode.org/blog/2009/07/08/the-­semantic-­web-­not-­a-­piece-­of-­cake.

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
OKD-­MES Representation layer (2)
• Manufacturing System Ontology (MSO) represents the
design of the structure of classes and relationships that
are used to describe production systems
• Hosted in a Ontology service
• SPARQL & SPARUL for retrieving and updating data
Physical
domain
Technological
domain
Control
domain
Visualization
domain
MSO

15. Potentials of web standards for automation control in
manufacturing systems – EMS2015
OKD-­MES Orchestration layer
• Service composition
– WS-­BPEL: WS Business Process Execution Language
– BPMN: Business Process Modeling Notation
– OWL-­S: Ontology (OWL-­based) for describing Services
http://www.repasat.com/wp-­content/uploads/2014/08/repasat-­workflow.jpg

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
OKD-­MES Visualization layer
• HTML5 + CSS + SVG à FASTory simulator!
• Many more ways/technologies of visualization on web browsers…

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
Use case

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
Integrating different layers
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MODELS VISUALIZATION
DEVICES
External Services User

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
FASTory simulator
http://escop.rd.tut.fi:3000/fmw
AVAILABLE ONLINE!

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manufacturing systems – EMS2015
Conclusions and further work
• The use of web standards, which are directly
supported in the web browsers, gives greater
chances for applications developed following
these standards to be compatible with the future
technologies.
• Open standards for the open ecosystem
• Web orientation for the simplicity
• Semantics coupling for the flexibility
• Modularity for the (re)configurability

21. Acknowledge
• The research leading to these results has received
funding from the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking under
grant agreement n° 332946 and from the Finnish
Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
(TEKES), correspondent to the project shortly entitled
eScop, Embedded systems for service-­based control of
open manufacturing and process automation
(http://www.escop-­project.eu/)
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