An Integrated Industrial Ethernet Solution for the Implementation of Smart Factory

IEEE Access

Chengliang Liu¹  Jian Ouyang²  Shiyong Wang²  Di Li² 

[1] School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China;School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China;

关键词: Smart factory;    Industry 4.0;    OPC UA;    DDS;    EtherCAT;   

DOI  :  10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2770180

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Smart factory addresses the vertical integration of physical entities and information systems. Network and cloud are two essential infrastructures to achieve this goal. Among them, the network provides interconnection for communication and data flow, while the cloud provides powerful and elastic computing and storage abilities for big data and intelligent applications. This paper presents a cloud-centric framework for the implementation of the smart factory. Based on this framework, three high leveled protocols viz., EtherCAT, DDS, and OPC UA are selected to implement machine network (controller to sensors/actuators communication), machine to machine communication, and machine to cloud communication respectively, to satisfy diverse communication requirements of the smart factory. An integrated architecture for combining ontology knowledge and semantic data to support intelligent applications is also proposed. These network and data process schemes are verified in a smart factory prototype for personalized candy packing application.

【 授权许可】

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