Development of Asset Administration Shell for the components of EBMR plant

Abstract

The use of reference architectures and frameworks is an important prerequisite for dealing with the complexity, diversity and heterogeneity of cyber-physical systems. One of the most popular architectures is RAMI 4.0, suggested by the Industry 4.0 Working Group. According to RAMI 4.0, the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) is a digital copy of assets, an implementation of the digital twin for Industry 4.0. The paper represents a semantic approach for development of AAS, which presents the data model through ontology. The semantic model allows for the presentation of facts, data schemes and meta-data in a unified way, using a global identification scheme. An example from the development of AAS for I4.0 components of an EBMR plant illustrates the approach.