The Digital Shopfloor- Industrial Automation in the Industry 4.0 Era

The present book provides a comprehensive description of some of the most representative solutions that offered by these three projects, along with the ways these solutions can be combined in order to achieve multiplier effects and maximize the benefits of their use.

John Soldatos, Oscar Lazaro, Franco Cavadini

1 Introduction to Industry 4.0 and the Digital Shopfloor Vision 2 Open Automation Framework for Cognitive Manufacturing 3 Reference Architecture for Factory Automation using Edge Computing and Blockchain Technologies 4 IEC-61499 Distributed Automation for the Next Generation of Manufacturing Systems 5 Communication and Data Management in Industry 4.0 6 A Framework for Flexible and Programmable Data Analytics in Industrial Environments 7 Model Predictive Control in Discrete Manufacturing Shopfloors 8 Modular Human-Robot Applications in the Digital Shopfloor Based on IEC-61499 9 Digital Models for Industrial Automation Platforms 10 Open Semantic Meta-model as a Cornerstone for the Design and Simulation of CPS-based Factories 11 A Centralized Support Infrastructure (CSI) to Manage CPS Digital Twin, towards the Synchronization between CPS Deployed on the Shopfloor and Their Digital Representation 12 Building an Automation Software Ecosystem on the Top of IEC 61499 13 Migration Strategies towards the Digital Manufacturing Automation 14 Tools and Techniques for Digital Automation Solutions Certification 15 Ecosystems for Digital Automation Solutions an Overview and the Edge4Industry Approach 16 Epilogue