In the last few years, research and industrial communities have spent a considerable effort in the designing and early commissioning of digitalized manufacturing environments with the primary objective of achieving a new automation paradigm, more flexible, responsive to changes, and safe. This work presents the architecture and discusses the applications through a real-life case study, of a microservices-based middleware supporting the next generation of smart-factory applications with particular attention paid to simulation tools. The proposed platform aims at being among the first solutions capable of empowering industrial cyber-physical systems (CPSs), providing an environment that streamlines the management of digital twins along the whole plant life cycle. The platform features a distributed architecture based on microservices and big data best practices; it supports the definition of CPS digital representations and the handling of data conveyed from the shop floor for real-to-digital synchronization.

Ciavotta, M., Maso, G., Rovere, D., Tsvetanov, R., Menato, S. (2020). Towards the Digital Factory: A Microservices-Based Middleware for Real-to-Digital Synchronization. In A. Bucchiarone, N. Dragoni, S. Dustdar, P. Lago, M. Mazzara, V. Rivera, et al. (a cura di), Microservices Science and Engineering (pp. 273-297). Cham : Springer [10.1007/978-3-030-31646-4_11].

Towards the Digital Factory: A Microservices-Based Middleware for Real-to-Digital Synchronization

Ciavotta, Michele
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2020

Abstract

In the last few years, research and industrial communities have spent a considerable effort in the designing and early commissioning of digitalized manufacturing environments with the primary objective of achieving a new automation paradigm, more flexible, responsive to changes, and safe. This work presents the architecture and discusses the applications through a real-life case study, of a microservices-based middleware supporting the next generation of smart-factory applications with particular attention paid to simulation tools. The proposed platform aims at being among the first solutions capable of empowering industrial cyber-physical systems (CPSs), providing an environment that streamlines the management of digital twins along the whole plant life cycle. The platform features a distributed architecture based on microservices and big data best practices; it supports the definition of CPS digital representations and the handling of data conveyed from the shop floor for real-to-digital synchronization.
Capitolo o saggio
Digital Factory, Digital Twins, Microservices
English
Microservices Science and Engineering
Bucchiarone, A; Dragoni, N; Dustdar, S; Lago, P; Mazzara, M; Rivera, V; Sadovykh, A
12-dic-2019
2020
9783030316457
Springer
273
297
Ciavotta, M., Maso, G., Rovere, D., Tsvetanov, R., Menato, S. (2020). Towards the Digital Factory: A Microservices-Based Middleware for Real-to-Digital Synchronization. In A. Bucchiarone, N. Dragoni, S. Dustdar, P. Lago, M. Mazzara, V. Rivera, et al. (a cura di), Microservices Science and Engineering (pp. 273-297). Cham : Springer [10.1007/978-3-030-31646-4_11].
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