As a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, electric power supply in Japan faced a critical situation; in particular, factories that consume a large amount of electric power were seriously affected. Meanwhile, in China and other emerging countries, where the economic growth rate is high and automation of manufacturing factories is progressing, further energy saving is a key is...

The influence of utility automation systems pervades many aspects of everyday life in most parts of the world. In the shape of factory and process control systems they enable high productivity in industrial production, and in the shape of electric power, gas, and water utility systems they provide the backbone of technical civilization. The sensitivity of electric power systems is very high for...

Industry 4.0 has influenced the process of human communication from face-to-face to virtual. The aligns with Cyber-Physical System (CPS) concept. CPS concept shows what is physically represented in cyberspace and vice versa. This resulted content production distribution mass media adopting technological developments summarized CyberPhysical Smart Factory systems. adoption technology that should...

A new trend in automation is to deploy so-called cyberphysical systems (CPS) which combine computation with physical processes. The novel RoboCup Logistics League Sponsored by Festo (LLSF) aims at a such CPS logistic scenarios in an automation setting. A team of robots has to produce products from a number of semi-finished products which they have to machine during the game. Different productio...

There’s a world of opportunity for distributed embedded and real-time applications. The list of applications goes on and on: military systems, telecommunications, factory automation, traffic control, financial trading, medical imaging, building automation, consumer electronics, and more. These applications must find the right data, know where to send it, and deliver it to the right place at the...

Factory automation requires smart solutions, especially when a set of equipment, from different vendors, has to be interfaced to enable fast and flexible production. In this paper, a hardware /software (hw/sw) modeling approach and its implementation, in the electronic system, Fill, for the automation and real-time control of a wine bottling production line, is presented. Fill is a sub-system o...