Smart Connected Supplier Network (SCSN)
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Updated at: 18-02-2023
Results, demos etc. overview
SIEMENS: Global vehicle manufacturer uses Capital software to develop a digital thread across the entire product lifecyc...
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Updated at: 29-09-2022
M4.0 metal domain addresses the BUSINESS LAYER of the vertical side of RAMI and the ENTERPRISE and CONNECTED WORLD layers of the hyerarchical side
Used components:
IDS connectors for data provider, data consumer ; Clearing house ; Broker
Main IDS components used:
- IDS Trusted Connector
- IDS Broker
Approach:
- Using MindConnectAPI that enables external services to connect with the MindSphereplatform
- Development of an IDS connector that implements the MindConnectAPI and enables to share data between different actors in the use case (e.g. equipment manufactures and technology solution providers)
AAS (Asset Administration Shell) powered Optical inspection Station demonstrator
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Updated at: 26-05-2021
Used as the primary date exchange method for the demonstrator. Links items on the shop floor to the SCADA.
ATS Bus - Enabled a single, common service bus for data exchange between the PLCs and other high level components of the system, including a SCADA system. Used a broker-based publish-subscribe approach to decouple the physical sources and destinations of the data to facilitate reconfigurability.
Nservicebus - The underlying technology which enabled the ATS Bus to exchange data.
OPC UA (Kepware) – Many devices could not interface directly with the service bus, so OPC UA was used to extract data and publish it to the service bus.
OPC UA (Kepware) – Many devices could not interface directly with the service bus, so OPC UA was used to extract data and publish it to the service bus.
B2MML – Business to Manufacturing Mark-up Language. Data standard used to define the process (i.e. the set of operations to be carried out by the cell for each unique product), what resources are required for each process, the materials needed and more. The full process would be designed by engineers, and then the SCADA would break the ‘master’ B2MML process representation into sub-processes and send these to the resources via the service bus. These would then trigger the start of processes by the PLCs.
B2MML – Business to Manufacturing Mark-up Language. Data standard used to define the process (i.e. the set of operations to be carried out by the cell for each unique product), what resources are required for each process, the materials needed and more. The full process would be designed by engineers, and then the SCADA would break the ‘master’ B2MML process representation into sub-processes and send these to the resources via the service bus. These would then trigger the start of processes by the PLCs.
Mobile Robot Intralogistics by IMR
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Updated at: 26-04-2021
All production cells are censorised and equiped with OPC-UA, that logs their state and sends it to a central server.
Fore more information about OPC and AAS, see this video.
There was a risk that other developments made within this pilot do not follow the reference architecture of IDS and thus are incompatible. This would cause that certain applications could not be deployed and run within in the proposed data space approach.