Industry 4.0 smart production systems comprise industrial systems and subsystems that
need to be integrated in such a way that they are able to support high modularity and …

The current era is marked by an accelerated digitization of manufacturing processes, with
robotic systems increasingly integrated into various workflows. Yet, despite significant …

Model-driven engineering (MDE) provides tools and methods for the manipulation of formal
models. In this letter, we leverage MDE for the transformation of production system models …

Industry 4.0 production systems must support flexibility in various dimensions, such as for
the products to be produced, for the production processes to be applied, and for the …

Smart production systems need to be able to adapt to changing environments and market
needs. They have to reflect changes in (i) the reconfiguration of the production systems …

IEC 62264-2 and AutomationML can co-exist as separate views on the same production
system; the former with a slight bias towards the upper levels, the latter slightly biased …

With the mega trend of digitalizing industry [1], several new application scenarios have
arisen, such as order-controlled production, adaptable factories, self-organizing adaptive …

Digital representations of top floor entities are inherent in higher level software suites such
as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems or manufacturing execution systems (MESs) …

Industrie 4.0 aims at flexible production networks that require horizontal integration across
companies. Evidently, any production related information exchanged in the network must be …

OPC Unified Architecture (UA) is a powerful and versatile platform for hosting information
from a large variety of domains. In some cases, the domain-specific information models …