A SysML-Based Methodology for Manufacturing Machinery Modeling and Design

Abstract

This paper describes a modeling methodology to support the design process of complex systems. The main challenge in modern industrial applications is the sheer volume of data involved in the design process. While using high-level abstraction is necessary to manage this data and analyze the system “as a whole”, designers need also to retain all the lowlevel information of the system, in order to be able to perform optimizations and modifications at later times. The solution proposed here is to use a hierarchy of models, each one describing the system at different levels of abstraction, and arrange them in such a way that it is possible to easily “map” each level onto the others. The topmost layer of the system description is expressed in System Modeling Language (SysML), a generalpurpose modeling language based on UML

Towards the co-evolution of industrial products and its production systems by combining models from development and hardware/software deployment in cyber-physical systems

“…Reuter et al [7] present an approach to integrate sub-models for control configurations in MBSE tools to improve the interdisciplinary modeling of manufacturing systems during development phase. Other SysML-based approaches [8,10] provide the modeling of (non-functional) requirements and the application of simulations for design validation. However, in contrast to the work in [3] these approaches do not provide a direct integration with automation system software.…”

“…The same holds for Thramboulidis et al [9] which are also based on SysML and provide the modeling of domain-specific components along with their functional and non-functional requirements but lack a sufficient coupling between the functional models and run-time environments. The approaches [10,11] of Fantuzzi et al are also based on SysML as well as on Unified Modeling Language (UML) intend to describe the different aspects of aPS and mechatronic systems in general. In [11], design patterns for the generation of aPS' software are presented still lacking a close integration between the modeled behavior and executed code on the target platform as in [3].…”

“…Taking a first step towards this goal, this paper presents an approach for MBSE based on systems modeling language (SysML) (e.g., [6,8,10]). This approach intends to enable an optimized deployment of a production system's automation software to automation hardware resources taking the coevolution of the products to be produced into account.…”

A cyber–physical system-based approach for industrial automation systems

“…Even though two different levels of abstraction in software specification are compared, the finding are quite interesting and can be utilized to facilitate the shift to the OO programming paradigm in IASs development. Both, UML and SysML, are utilized in the development process of IASs, e.g., [14][15][16][23] [37]. However, most of the approaches do not use UML and SysML to increase the abstraction level in modeling so as to facilitate the development process in this domain.…”

“…These challenges have already attracted the interest of academia and several works have been published towards this direction, as for example [14][15][16]. It is widely accepted today that the factory automation industry is slowly but steadily experiencing a paradigm shift [17].…”