Design patterns for Failure Management in IEC 61499 Function Blocks.

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

“…For IEC 61499-based applications (IEC, 2011), common solutions and guidelines were proposed for hierarchical automation solutions (Zoitl and Prähofer, 2013), failure management (Serna et al, 2010) and portable automation projects (Dubinin and Vyatkin, 2012). Even software design patterns for IEC 61499 programs, e.g., Distributed Application, Proxy and Model-View-Controller, were defined (Christensen, 2000) and evaluated (Strömman et al, 2005).…”

COSME: A distributed control platform for communicating machine tools in Agile Manufacturing Systems

“…As it has been previously indicated, a component has failure management inputs and outputs. Following the Failure Zone design pattern established by the authors [26], components can notify failures to each other, in order to transit to the failure, degraded or warning operation stages and perform their response actions. Later, a new notification allows recovery and the return to the normal operation.…”

Control software design for a cutting glass machine tool based on the COSME platform. Case study

“…Operation modes are not tied up to any specific element, but they are scattered into all of them. • Failure Management: Figure 1 shows a box named "Failure Management", conceived according to the design pattern presented in a previous work from the authors [8]. Once the possible fault conditions are identified, characterized and classified, the appropriate response actions are mapped (degraded operation, nonscheduled stop, notification, etc.).…”