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Objects to change within a manufacturing enterprise can be products, technological or logistical processes, parts of the manufacturing facilities or a company's organization. For this paper we assume, that IT systems are also objects to change – they have to be adapted to changes to products and facilities on the shop floor. Today the adaption of IT systems is managed and done manually – therefore the authors propose an automated way of changing the production's IT-systems. For this purpose two main ideas are described: reading and interpreting a self-description of production equipment and enrichment of these descriptions with data from the “digital factory” bridging the gap between planning and operating IT-systems and thus enabling higher adaptivity of manufacturing systems.

This contribution presents the usage of an abstract data exchange format for an automatic configuration of a production monitoring and control system. The automatic configuration procedure re-uses already existing engineering information stored in a standardized and system-independent data format like CAEX. Standard data formats enable - beside the possibility of reaching a transparent engineering value creation chain - the data access of computational algorithms which automatically analyze those data and automatically create engineering results out of them. Standard data formats are a key for the idea of "automation of automation". The concept is exemplarily implemented and explained by means of the configuration of ProVis.Agent® and ProVis.Visu® using CAEX

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