Abstract
Ensuring high availability despite the growing frequency of changes in production requirements leads to an increased reconfiguration demand in the domain of industrial automation systems, which will be dominated by Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) in the future. Therefore, a concept, covering a methodology containing four steps, is utilized to answer the research question how to enhance CPPS with a self-organized reconfiguration management. This contribution focuses on the first two steps of this concept: the identification of reconfiguration demand and the generation of alternative configurations. A condensed presentation of the related work reveals that an interface-oriented formalized process description depicts an appropriate conceptual basis. Building upon this, the presented concept contains a capability model of the CPPS and the reasoning to determine a potential reconfiguration demand, as well as a procedure for the generation of alternative configurations. To evaluate the concept, an agent-based implementation is given, which uses an OPC-UA controlled simulated modular production system as a substitute CPPS in discrete manufacturing.
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