Designing a Cyber Physical System Prototype for the Leaching Process in Producing High-Purity Materials

摘要

Accompanied with the emerging concept of Industry 4.0, manufacturing companies in any sectors are attempting to transform their hitherto production equipment into cyber physical systems (CPSs), with the aims of improving efficiency across the whole production line and enhancing core business competitiveness. Focusing on the material manufacturing sector, this paper presents and discusses the design of a CPS prototype used in the leaching process for producing high-purity materials. This prototype contains three components/layers, namely sensor installation for data collection, wireless data transmission using ZigBee, and finally data storage and visualization. This CPS prototype design is particularly useful and practically transferrable to material manufacturing companies, especially those involving high purity material production, during their journey towards realizing Industry 4.0.