Adaptive and flexible production systems require modular and reusable software especially
considering their long-term life cycle of up to 50 years. SWMAT4aPS, an approach to …

The growing complexity of industrial automation demands the adoption of software
engineering principles for improving the development process of control systems. This paper …

Abstract Automated Production Systems (aPS) have lifetimes of up to 30–50 years,
throughout which the desired products change ever more frequently. This requires flexible …

Digital Twin (DT) is one of the pillars of modern information technologies that plays an
important role on industry digitalization. Its use varies very much with the domain but one of …

Este trabajo presenta una metodología para la generación de código de control, adoptando
estándares acordes con las actuales arquitecturas de referencia en el campo de la …

The continuous changes on the market and customer demands have forced modern
automation systems to provide more strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements such as …

A fourth industrial revolution, occurring in global manufacturing, provides a vision of future
manufacturing systems that incorporate highly dynamic physical systems, robust and …

The control software often performs complex, important, and responsible operations in
industrial manufacturing systems. The size and complexity of such software are still …

The prevailing system and software model in automation systems engineering is defined by
the IEC 61131 norm. It is to date the best way we know how to express low-level logic and …

Although the digital factory (DF) concept has raised high expectations since its inception, it is
still missing industrial impact. One of the problems attributed to this issue is the lack of …