Comments on Improving Transferability Between Different Engineering Stages in the Development of Automated Material Flow Modules

TL;DR

This paper critically evaluates a proposed meta-model and model-driven design approach for automated material flow modules, questioning their practical exploitation potential and highlighting areas for improvement.

Contribution

The paper provides a critical commentary on existing meta-models and design approaches, offering insights and arguments that challenge their effectiveness and applicability.

Findings

Questions the practical exploitation of the meta-model

Highlights limitations in the design approach

Suggests areas for further improvement

Abstract

In the paper by D. Regulin et al. (IEEE Trans. On Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 13, no. 4, 1422-1432, October 2016) authors claim that they present a meta-model for the modeling of the Automated Material Flow Module (aMFM) and a model-driven design approach for aMFMs. In this letter we comment on the presented meta-model and the proposed model-driven approach regarding their potential for exploitation. We present specific arguments and make cases that call the authors design decision into question.