PABADIS"PROMISE - PABADIS based Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems for Re-Configurable Enterprises

Vor dem Hintergrund der verstärkten Forderungen nach Flexibilität und schneller Anpassbarkeit sowie nach verstärkter unternehmensübergreifender Kooperation in der Fertigung und auf der Basis des erfolgreichen EU-Forschungsprojektes PABADIS wird das Projekt PABADIS"PROMISE die Idee der verteilten Steuerungen zu einer innovativen Architektur interagierender Ressourcen- und Produktsteuerungen weiterentwickeln. Unter dem neuen Paradigma "Der Produktionsauftrag ist die Steuerungsapplikation", das auf einer innovativen Steuerungs- und Vernetzungsarchitektur über alle drei Steuerungsebenen aufbaut, wird PABADIS"PROMISE eine neuartige Steuerungsarchitektur entwickeln, die den zukünftigen Anforderungen an Fertigungssysteme gerecht wird. Die angestrebten Ergebnisse des PABADIS"PROMISE-Projektes umfassen eine neue innovative Steuerungsarchitektur auf der Basis verteilter Intelligenz, eine neuartige Ontologie für Fertigungssysteme, eine erste einbettbare Echtzeitagentenplattform für Steuerungen, eine neue Generation von RFID-Geräten und Tags, eine neue Generation von Feldsteuerungssystemen und neue Bausteine für eine neue Generation von Warenwirtschaftssystemen.

PABADIS PROMISEPABADIS based Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems for Re-Configurable Enterprises

Future manufacturing will require high flexibility/adaptability and speed with respect to organisation of production and supply-chain management and require an increasing amount of services and inter-company collaboration. These future requirements especially concern control and networking of embedded control systems of manufacturing enterprises at ERP (office), MES (factory control) and production level. Taking these requirements into account and building on top of the successful FP5 Project PABADIS, the PABADIS"PROMISE (P2) project extends the idea of distributed control to an innovative architecture which incorporates both resource and product. With the project"s new paradigm "The Order is the Application" which stipulates a correspondingly innovative control and networking architecture across all three levels, P2 will combine European and international forces. As designated outcome the P2 project will develop a new control architecture based on distributed intelligence, a new manufacturing ontology, a first embedded Real-Time agent platform for control, a new generation of RFID"s, a new generation of field control devices, and building blocks for a new generation of Enterprise Resource Planning systems. At ERP level new functions together with new interfaces will be developed, enabling direct access from ERP level to the field control system following the new P2 ontology, which provides a framework for product and production process description and comparison. Both Manufacturing Execution System (MES) level and Field Control level will be completely decentralised. Innovative to current practice and research, the MES level will be decentralised into Mobile Software Agents which are located (stored) in smart Tags which are attached directly to the product (Agent on RFID). Once the product arrives at a processing station, the Agent is read out of the RFID Tag and invoked to ensure product processing, further planning based on the ontology based descriptions, and further necessary transport steps. For this, a first Embedded Real-Time Agent Platform will be developed. To be flexible with regard to the logical usage of the plant s machinery, the product dependent control part (for which a new manufacturing ontology will be developed) has to be provided individually for each product in the moment of production and is also located within the Mobile Software Agent, respectively in the RFID Tag. The Field Control level, correspondingly, is reduced to Residential Software Agents, which represent the physically possible production process. Only these fine grained control building blocks are permanently located on the resource control devices. They will behave as drivers for the physics of the resources similar to drivers for PC periphery systems like printers and modems. Hence, the PABADIS"PROMISE project will provide basic architectures, methodologies and technologies for the long term innovation of manufacturing systems.