A Survey on Advanced Control Approaches in Factory Automation

article published in 2015

A combined analysis of plant connectivity and alarm logs to reduce the number of alerts in an automation system

article

A data exchange format for the engineering of building automation systems

article published in 2008

A fuzzy knowledge-based system for railway traffic control

A knowledge-based system to translate control system applications

A market-based multi-agent-system for decentralized power and grid control

A method to evaluate the openness of automation tools for increased interoperability

scholarly article published November 2013

A middleware for software evolution of automation software

scholarly article published September 2011

A new approach for adopting communication systems to new constraints at runtime

A practical simulation model generation for virtual commissioning

article

A reference system for the benchmarking of manufacturing control systems

A rule format for industrial plant information reasoning

article

A semantic Requirement Ontology for the engineering of building automation systems by means of OWL

A workflow support system for the process and automation engineering of production plants

article

Advanced control in factory automation: a survey

An active service-component architecture to enable self-awareness of evolving production systems

An analysis of real-time ethernets with regard to their automatic configuration

An overview of current technologies and emerging trends in factory automation

Analysis of potential instabilities in agent-based smart grid control systems

Analysis of service-oriented architecture approaches suitable for modular process automation

Applying the Domain-Mapping-Matrix to Identify the Appropriate Level of Detail of Simulation Models for Virtual Commissioning

Automated generation of simulation models for control code tests

Automatic derivation of qualitative plant simulation models from legacy piping and instrumentation diagrams

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Automatic detection and recognition of structural and connectivity objects in SVG-coded engineering documents

Automatic generation of PLC code beyond the nominal sequence

Automatic generation of bond graph models of process plants

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Automation systems — Formal modeling of temporal change of physical structure

Automatische Analyse und Erkennung graphischer Inhalte von SVG-basierten Engineering-Dokumenten

Automatische Workflow-Generierung für Engineering-Prozesse

Automaton-on-Tag: An Approach for an RFID-Driven Production Control with Mealy Machines Stored on an RFID Tag

Common communication model for distributed automation systems

Comparison of engineering results within domain specific languages regarding information contents and intersections

Computer-aided Design and Implementation of Interlock Control Code

Concept and development of a semantic based data hub between process design and automation system engineering tools

article

Concept for proactive ramp-up validation of body-in-white lines

Control design for nodes in decentralized traffic networks with delayed traffic information

Cross-Domain Energy Savings by Means of Unified Energy Agents

Dealing with non-functional requirements in distributed control systems engineering

Decentralized routing control for guided transportation systems

Design patterns for distributed automation systems with consideration of non-functional requirements

Design, implementation and testing of multi- energy infrastructures the multi agent way in Agent.HyGrid

Development of a method to analyze the impact of manufacturing systems engineering on product quality

article

Dezentrale Steuerung von Transportsystemen in Analogie zum Routing in Datennetzen (Decentralized Control of Transport Systems based on Data Routing Mechanisms)

Durchgängige Prozesssicht in unterschiedlichen Domänen Methoden und Werkzeug zum Einsatz der formalisierten ProzessbeschreibungUniversal View on Processes in Different Domains Methods and Tool for Formalised Process Descriptions

Durchgängiges Engineering von der Anforderungserhebung bis zur Anlagenstrukturbeschreibung

Durchgängiges modellbasiertes Engineering von Gebäudeautomationssystemen

Efficient use of data exchange formats in engineering projects by means of language integrated queries — Engineers LINQ to XML

Einheitliches und durchgängiges Engineering von Steuerungslösungen für hybride Energiesysteme und -netze mittels Energie-Agenten

Engineering

Engineering method for the integration of modules into fast evolving production systems in the process industry

Engineering of building automation systems — State-of-the-art, deficits, approaches

Enhancing a model-based engineering approach for distributed manufacturing automation systems with characteristics and design patterns

Erweiterung des V-Modells®für den Entwurf von verteilten Automatisierungssystemen

Evaluation and simulation of building automation systems based on their AutomationML description

Evaluation of the openness of automation tools for interoperability in engineering tool chains

Evolution Management of Production Facilities by Semi-Automated Requirement Verification

Evolution of production facilities and its impact on non-functional requirements

Evolution of software in automated production systems: Challenges and research directions

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First steps from a traffic node to traffic networks — Modeling and stability

Formal representation of GRAFCET to automatically generate control code

Gebäudeautomation

Hardware Integration and Real-Time Control in an Agent-Based Distribution Grid Simulation

ISO 15926 vs. IEC 62424 — Comparison of plant structure modeling concepts

article

Improved diagnosis by combining structural and process knowledge

Informationsbedarf für automatische IT-Sicherheitsanalysen automatisierungstechnischer Anlagen

Integrated automated design approach for building automation systems

Integrating plant and process information as a basis for automated plant diagnosis tasks

article

Integration of Modular Process Units Into Process Control Systems

Interaction of model-driven engineering and signal-based online monitoring of production systems: Towards Requirement-aware evolution

Interoperabilität von Engineering-Werkzeugen

Knowledge-based Requirement-Engineering of building automation systems by means of Semantic Web technologies

Knowledge-based selection of principle solutions for sensors and actuators based on standardized plant description and semantic concepts

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Learning Behaviour Models of Discrete Event Production Systems from Observing Input/Output Signals

Learning material flow models for manufacturing plants from data traces

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Levels of Detail and Appropriate Model Types for Virtual Commissioning in Manufacturing Engineering

METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL CHANGE OF PHYSICAL STRUCTURE IN THE INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL LIFE-CYCLE

Mining technical dependencies throughout engineering process knowledge

Modeling change and structural dependencies of automation systems

Modeling of interdependencies between products, processes and resources to support the evolution of mechatronic systems

Modellbasierte Inbetriebnahme und online-Konfiguration von Gebäudeautomationssystemen

Modelling Predictable Component-Based Distributed Control Architectures

scholarly article

Object-oriented engineering data exchange as a base for automatic generation of simulation models

Objektorientierte Beschreibung einer Chemieanlage – Möglichkeiten und Vorteile

Operationalized definitions of non-functional requirements on automated production facilities to measure evolution effects with an automation system

Optimization of Production-Oriented Logistics Processes Through Camera-Based Identification and Localization for Cyber-Physical Systems

Petrinetzmodell für die Formalisierung von GRAFCET-Spezifikationen

Principles, viewpoints and effect links in the engineering of automated plants

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Progress in industrial automation programming and design: from a primitive to a simple solution [Guest Editorial

Reasoning on Engineering Knowledge: Applications and Desired Features

Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium in Boppard

Requirements and obstacles for the transformation of GRAFCET specifications into IEC 61131–3 PLC programs

Requirements engineering and modelling for building automation systems

Requirements for the benchmarking of decentralized manufacturing control systems

Reusable and flexible design of communication gateways

scholarly article published September 2009

Risk minimization in modernization projects of plant automation — A knowledge-based approach by means of semantic web technologies

article

Selected challenges of software evolution for automated production systems

Semantic description of process modules

Software Support for Building Automation Requirements Engineering—An Application of Semantic Web Technologies in Automation

Stability Criterion for a Single Decision-Making Node in Decentralized Material Handling Systems

article by Ireneus Wior et al published September 2012 in IFAC postprint volumes IPPV / International Federation of Automatic Control

Strategy for the amendment of plant information models by means of OPC UA

article

Structure and classification of unified energy agents as a base for the systematic development of future energy grids

Supporting commissioning of production plants by model-based testing and model learning

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Supporting plant disturbance analysis by dynamic causal digraphs and propagation look-up tables

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Systematic interdisciplinary reuse within the engineering of automated plants

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Systematic reuse of interdisciplinary components supported by engineering relations

Systematization approach for the adaptation of manufacturing machines

article published in 2016

Systemdynamische Konsequenzen von Mauterhebung und anderen Eingriffen in den Verkehr

Test- und Verifikationsverfahren für Agentensysteme – Status Quo und weitere Herausforderungen

Time as non-functional requirement in distributed control systems

Tool support for an automatic transformation of GRAFCET specifications into IEC 61131-3 control code

Towards common concepts of remote services

Transformation of GRAFCET to PLC code including hierarchical structures

Transformation of continuous simulation models of automated manufacturing systems into discrete event models on different levels of detail

Transformation of the NAMUR MTP to OPC UA to allow plug and produce for modular process automation

Transforming hierarchical concepts of GRAFCET into a suitable Petri net formalism

Transforming time constraints of a GRAFCET graph into a suitable Petri net formalism

Typical automation functions and their distribution in automation systems

UML-based safety analysis of distributed automation systems

Using contact points to integrate discipline spanning real-time requirements in modeling Networked Automation Systems for manufacturing systems

Validierung von Steuerungscode mit Hilfe automatisch generierter Simulationsmodelle

Virtual plants for brown-field projects

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Wissensbasierte Systeme im Engineering der Automatisierungstechnik

Wissensbasiertes Engineering automatisierter Anlagen unter Verwendung von AutomationML und OWL

Workflow and decision support for the design of distributed automation systems