Publication
Leveraging the Agility of Manufacturing Chains by Combining Process-Oriented Production Planning and Service-Oriented Manufacturing
Lisa Ollinger; Jochen Schlick; Stefan Hodek
In: Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress. World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC-2011), August 28 - September 2, Milan, Italy, Elsevier Science Ltd. 2011.
Abstract
Globalization, rising product variety, the need for continuously improving productivity and quality
demand higher agility of manufacturing systems. Well-known principles like encapsulating functionality
into mechatronic systems to enable reuse and standardization are basic approaches to gain agility in
manufacturing environments. However, there is a lack of a holistic communication architecture for
manufacturing systems and an overall concept to organize the continuously changing production planning
and control processes. The paradigm of service-oriented architectures emerged as a concept to increase
the flexibility and reuse within IT environments by using software modules with standardized
communication interfaces. Transferring this paradigm to the field of manufacturing offers a unique
opportunity to complement the advances of standardized communication interfaces and mechatronic
encapsulation with powerful production planning and control methods.
In this paper the central aspects and the potentials of transferring service-oriented paradigms from IT to
automation are discussed. The methodology of process-oriented manufacturing planning is presented as
the organizational fundament for an efficient establishment of service-oriented manufacturing systems. An
approach for a process-oriented factory model is presented as the basis for a process-oriented planning
process. Furthermore, a technical demonstrator that provides the opportunity for evaluating SOA
technologies and our new planning approach is shown.