From the Book: PREFACE: During the 1980s and 1990s, the growth in the use of computer
networks has been nothing short of phenomenal. No longer do organizations consider …

Das Buch beschreibt Methoden, Aufgaben und Werkzeuge der Prozeßleittechnik und
wendet sich an alle interessierten Leser. Es bietet dem Laien einen grundsätzlichen …

The introduction of computer-based machines on the shop floor has increased the
productivity of the manufacturing industry. However, these machines work as stand-alone …

Remote access to industrial plants has proven a serious competitive advantage. However,
building efficient and safe systems is not a trivial task. It requires the integration of diverse …

Recently, MTConnect has been developed as an open and free communications standard to
facilitate the exchange of data on the manufacturing floor for machine tools and related …

Manufacturing message specification (MMS) is an ISO OSI application layer standard
designed to support messaging communication to and from programmable manufacturing …

A robot simulation system has been used not only as a design and simulation tool, but it also
serves as an off-line programming system for industrial robots and other machines with a …

The present work proposes the use of a combination of standardized middleware
technologies, such as CORBA-RT and DDS in order to build electrical protection relays in a …

Real-time communication with performance guarantees is expected to become an important
and necessary feature of future computer networks. In this paper, we present a scheme …

Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging technology that has many potential applications in
manufacturing. Networked or shared virtual environments (VE) are of growing interest in …