An Asset Administration Shell Method for Data Exchange Between Manufacturing Software Applications

The multifaceted industrial application of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) has increased, enabling tight interactions between physical and computational elements. Industry 4.0 aims to promote CPSs. asset administration shell (AAS) represents the practical embodiment CPS, can be obtained by integrating information communication technologies. Most prior studies concentrated on AASs for hardware assets in manufacturing domain; they seldom considered software applications. To fill this gap, we present a method implementing software, i.e., execution system (MES) combined with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. This allows runtime data exchange MES ERP; is better than conventional file-based method. Finally, case (a order) presented validate our AAS