Outcomes, Insights and Best Practices from IIC Testbeds: Smart Factory Web Testbed
engineering phase is ongoing—intensifying
the work on the Asset Administration Shell,
on the extension of the Smart Factory Web
platform for other testbeds, and for the
work with IDSA.
The Testbed’s architecture and experiences
gained in the testbed over all phases will be
documented in a technical design report to
be published as a whitepaper in 2019. The
Testbed team plans to extend the report to
describe the work being done in the Digital
Twin/PI4.0 Component Testbed, a project
under the IIC-PI4.0 Joint Task Group and on
the IDS connector.
The technical report highlights the
description of assets in AutomationML,
covering:
Functionally, the first three phases have
been completed up through the Data &
Service Integration. Phase 4 involves the
collaborative software engineering of these
systems. There will be more work on the
overall system architecture to include new
developments with the Asset Administration
Shell, as well as extensions of the Smart
Factory Web Testbed to support the
Negotiation Automation Platform from NEC.
Though this work has started, the
specifications are still a work in progress.
Currently, the collaborative software
Their capabilities based on an
ontology (to discover and integrate
them as resources in a factory or
supply chain),
The definition of data to be sent to
Smart Factory Web and Microsoft
Azure through OPC UA or
SensorThings API utilizing the
automatic generation of OPC UA
aggregation and FROST servers and
The visualization of asset data in
Smart Factory Web and Microsoft
Azure.
Figure 4: 3 Tier Architecture for Factory Integration. Abbreviations AML: AutomationML, CEP: Complex Event Processing, OGC:
Open Geospatial Consortium, FROST: Fraunhofer Open Source SensorThings API Server
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