This paper presents one perspective on recent developments related to software
engineering in the industrial automation sector that spans from manufacturing factory …

Industry 4.0 is the German vision for the future of manufacturing, where smart factories use
information and communication technologies to digitise their processes to achieve improved …

This investigation presents an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architecture and a Model-
Based Engineering (MBE) approach for design, verification, and auto-code generation of …

The IEC 61499 is an open standard for the next generation of distributed control and
automation. Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems (DDS) is a specification of a …

Most of the distributed systems are heterogeneous by nature, where each device is running
on different architecture, platform, and operating system. This heterogeneity significantly …

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) are rapidly becoming choice of production
and manufacturing industry due to their quick adaptability to the ever-changing market …

ICS (industrial control system) has gone through constant evolution in both hardware and
software with the growing complexity of control applications. The generalization for these …

DDS is a recent specification aimed at providing high-performance publisher/subscriber
middleware solutions. Despite being a very powerful flexible technology, it may prove …

Today's Substation Automation Systems (SAS) are formed by diverse microprocessor-based
devices that carry out several operations such as metering, monitoring, protection and …

This paper describes the different communication patterns followed in industrial
communications and maps them into DDS (Data Distribution Service) which is a recent …