Manufacturing Execution System Integration through the Standardization of a Common Service Model for Cyber-Physical Production Systems

Digital transformation and artificial intelligence are creating an opportunity for innovation across all levels of industry transforming the world work by enabling factories to embrace cutting edge Information Technologies (ITs) into their manufacturing processes. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MESs) abandoning traditional role legacy executing middle-ware embracing much wider vision functional interoperability enablers among autonomous, distributed, collaborative Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS). In this paper, we propose a basic methodology universally modeling, digitalizing, integrating services offered variety isolated workcells single, standardized, augmented production system. The result is reliable, reconfigurable, interoperable architecture, which privileges Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) its rich possibilities information modeling at higher level common service interoperability, along with Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) lightweight protocols lower data exchange. proposed MES architecture has been demonstrated validated in several use-cases research laboratory excellence industrial testbeds.