The AEFTA (Application Enabler Technology for Factory Automation) experiment, which involves Digital Equipment Corporation, Politecnico di Torino and SYCO, with staff of seven, develops a factory automation product using BASEstar Open (1990) and object technology, notably OMT (Rumbaugh et al. 1991), G++ (Menga et al. 1993) and C++. The goal of the application experiment is to verify if object o...

The Theme: Automation systems are increasingly taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by information technology to offer new and original functions and solutions. The specific constraints of the automation domain on the other side lead to new requirements towards the dependability – especially safety and security – of the information technology used. This Special Section on “Information...

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Master of Science Degree Programme in Machine Automation KHAJEHZADEH, NAVID: Data and Process Mining Applications on a Multi-Cell Factory Automation Testbed Master of Science Thesis, 66 pages, 3 Appendix pages December 2012 Major subject: Factory Automation Examiner: Professor Jose L. Martinez Lastra

Latency is a critical parameter in Ethernet networks developed for Factory Automation applications. Latency is not a defined value for Ethernet as specified by the IEEE 802.3 standard. Nor is Ethernet inherently synchronous or repeatable. This disconnect between the inherent characteristics of Ethernet and the needs of Factory Automation applications must be bridged though careful architecture ...

In this report, we present our work in visualization and augmented reality technologies supporting collaboration in manufacturing automation. Our approach is based on (i) analysis based on spatial models of automation environments, (ii) next-generation controllers based on single board computers, (iii) cloud-, serviceand web-based technologies and (iv) an emphasis on experimental development us...