A model driven approach for automated generation of service-oriented holonic manufacturing systems

Abstract

In the context of manufacturing in Industry 4.0, software systems become of prime importance. Efficient, adaptable and trusted software services are required. Several approaches succeeded in creating a Service-oriented Holonic Manufacturing System that combines the advantages of Service-oriented Architectures and Holonic Manufacturing Systems. However until now these systems suffer from many shortcomings, among which are genericity, lack of proof of functional behaviour correctness, architecture modularity, etc. These systems are usually implemented manually and become hardly adaptable and reconfigurable to different contexts (resources, workshop..). In this paper, we investigate a Model Driven Engineering approach to represent these systems in order to automate the generation of the services logic code from abstract models and to construct a new software chain that deals with all the shortcomings cited above.