Product Centric Holons for Synchronisation and Interoperability in Manufacturing Environments

TL;DR

This paper introduces a holonic model for synchronizing physical and informational views in manufacturing, enhancing interoperability between enterprise applications and physical reality.

Contribution

It proposes a novel holonic approach and model-driven method to synchronize physical and virtual manufacturing views for better interoperability.

Findings

Holonic approach enables effective synchronization of physical and informational views.

Model-driven method ensures interoperability of holon models with enterprise applications.

Improves coordination across product lifecycle stages.

Abstract

In the last few years, lot of work has been done in order to ensure enterprise applications interoperability; however, proposed solutions focus mainly on enterprise processes. Indeed, throughout product lifecycle coordination needs to be established between reality in the physical world (physical view) and the virtual world handled by manufacturing information systems (informational view). This paper presents a holonic approach that enables synchronisation of both physical and informational views. A model driven approach for interoperability is proposed to ensure interoperability of holon based models with other applications in the enterprise.