Engineering the Smart Factory

作     者：HARRISON Robert VERA Daniel AHMAD Bilal 

作者机构：Warwick Manufacturing Group University of Warwick 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering》 (中国机械工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第29卷第6期

页      面：1046-1051页

核心收录：

学科分类：0711[理学-系统科学] 07[理学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 08[工学] 081104[工学-模式识别与智能系统] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 071102[理学-系统分析与集成] 081103[工学-系统工程] 

基　　金：support for this work from UK EPSRC,through the Knowledge-DrivenConfigurable Manufacturing (KDCM) research project under the Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Initiative from Innovate UK on the Direct Digital Deployment project, and from ARTEMIS on the Arrowhead project 

主　　题：index terms--smart factory Industry 4.0 automation systems cyber-physical systems engineering lifecycle 

摘      要：The fourth industrial revolution promises to create what has been called the smart factory. The vision is that within such modular structured smart factories, cyber-physical systems monitor physical processes, create a virtual copy of the physical world and make decentralised decisions. This paper provides a view of this initiative from an automation systems perspective. In this context it considers how future automation systems might be effectively configured and supported through their lifecycles and how integration, application modelling, visualisation and reuse of such systems might be best achieved. The paper briefly describes limitations in current engineering methods, and new emerging approaches including the cyber physical systems （CPS） engineering tools being developed by the automation systems group （ASG） at Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, UK.