Development of an Event-Driven System Architecture for Smart Manufacturing

Abstract

This paper describes the automated production data acquisition and integration process in the architectural pattern Tweeting Factory. This concept allows the use of existing production equipment with PLCs and the use of industrial IoT prepared for Industry 4.0. The main purpose of the work is to propose an event-driven system architecture and to prove its correctness and efficiency. The proposed architecture is able to perform transformation operations on the collected data. The simulation tests were carried out using real data from the factory shop-floor, services prepared for production monitoring, allowing the calculation of KPIs. The correctness of the solution is confirmed on 20 production units by comparing its results with the blackboard architecture using SQL queries. Finally, the response time for calculating ISO 22400 performance indicators is examined and it was verified that the presented solution can be considered as a real-time system.