Autonomous Decentralized System (ADS) which has the characteristics of on-line maintainability, on-line expandability and fault-tolerance has been successfilly used in many distributed computing domains, such as factory automation, trafic control, ofice automation, nuclear power plants. In order to realize many benefits of object-oriented software development, a framework for ADS application so...

Distributed sensing has been the primary application domain for sensor networks. Nevertheless, the capabilities of sensor devices have the potential to enable a new class of applications that use these devices not only for sensing, but also for actuation. We have developed a data flow management system called MicroToPSS that enables such applications using resource-constrained sensor devices. T...

Many factories, especially in developing countries, still use old technology and control systems. Some of them are forced to replace at least the control and supervising system in order to increase their productivity. This chapter presents a modern solution for updating the control system of a fodder-producing factory without replacing the field devices or the infrastructure. The automation sys...

Automation is a step beyond mechanisation, to increase productivity and to improve the quality. Automated manufacturing systems operate in the factory on the physical product to perform operations such as processing, assembly, inspection, or material handling and sometimes accomplishing more than one of these operations in the same system. One of the strategies for the automation is combination...

This paper presents the concept of system architecture a flexible cyber-physical factory control system. The allows automation process structures using fractal nodes. These nodes have functional and independent form can be clustered to larger structures. makes it possible equip with flexible, freely scalable, modular description this associated rules conditions is outlined in concept.

Reports on the factory of future where automation dominates operations. Digital manufacturing processes have been extensively transformed by ubiquitous connectivity and collaborative robots so much that industry is pursuing high productivity, efficiency, customization becoming increasingly collaborative, connected, cognitive (IC3). In fact, these new technologies fostered a remarkable increase ...

1 Introduction The possible applications of complex Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Management (CIMM) systems seem to be a vary important emerging application of the industrial engineering in the future manufacturing. In the case study country (Poland), the problems of manufacturing and management (including factory automation) have been tried to be solved together for a long time. Even t...

Wireless automation is an emerging field of research, engineering and industrial development that aims at significant savings in installation times and costs of cabling in automation systems, while providing a new level of flexibility for system design, reconfiguration, and agility. It is applicable to both new automation systems and retrofit applications. The use of wireless technologies is ra...

The problem of providing a hybrid wired/wireless communications for factory automation systems is still an open issue, notwithstanding the fact that already there are some solutions. This paper describes the role of simulation tools on the validation and performance analysis of two wireless extensions for the PROFIBUS protocol. In one of them, the Intermediate Systems, which connect wired and w...