ENABLING CONTROL SYSTEM AND CLOUD-BASED SIMULATION SERVICE INTEROPERABILITY

摘要

The latest innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will change manufacturing and simulation forever. One of those changes involves the use of simulation-based cloud services and the integration of those services with operational problems on the shop floor. In this paper, we focus on the control problems, which we represent as a multilayer process graph. The nodes in this graph are control functions, which are cognitive in nature and can be executed by different agents. The links in the graph are the information objects needed by each agent to execute its assigned functions. We also describe a generic sets of control functions and the roles that simulation can play in executing those functions. This means that simulation is now part of an integrated process and can no longer be thought of as a stand-alone technology. In this paper, we discuss issues and propose approaches to addressing that integration.