Model-Based System Reconfiguration: A Descriptive Study of Current Industrial Challenges

Qasim, Lara; Janković, Marija; Olaru, Sorin; Garnier, Jean‐Luc

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04209-7_8

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“…According to [30] the possibility to the reconfiguration of a system is essential to maintain it agile and flexible in the industrial scenario, but there is still little consensus on which architectures are the most effective in general.…”

Section: Issues On Flexibility On System's Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Analysis of Flexible Manufacturing on the Support of the Development of Smart Product-Service Systems

Leite¹,

Canciglieri²,

Szejka³

et al. 2020

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Currently, changes in the customer's mindset and increased flexibility in manufacturing shifted competition between companies to focus on the product's value rather than its cost. In this context, Product-Service Systems (PSSs) are an alternative to traditional value propositions (i.e. pure products, pure services) by combining services with products and providing an experience to customers. In recent decades, PSSs were expanded from solely business aspects to engineering aspects and technical considerations in their scope, such as the paradigms of Technical PSS, Industrial PSS, Digitalized PSS and Cyber-Physical PSS. More recently, due to the application of Industry 4.0 concepts, there is a significant increase of "smart technologies", i.e. sensors; connectivity; mobile application, in PSSs, naming it a new paradigm on the field, known as Smart PSSs. In this context, this research aims to explore and discuss current issues related to the integration of flexible manufacturing processes and Smart PSSs through a literature review and analysis, regarding information sharing, traceability and system reconfiguration based on customer's requirements. Found literature points to gaps in the theme related to semantic issues and design issues regarding the dynamic reconfiguration of the manufacturing process and the Smart PSS. The modern approaches to the theme, as found in literature, are still not able to cope with the semantic barriers and high volume of heterogeneous information in a holistic manner. Conclusions point that further investigation of the cited issues is required in a systematic manner, as well as the development of models that can cope with the presented issues.

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Section: Issues On Flexibility On System's Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Analysis of Flexible Manufacturing on the Support of the Development of Smart Product-Service Systems

Leite¹,

Canciglieri²,

Szejka³

et al. 2020

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…1 Supporting system reconfiguration in industry still remains a challenge. 4 Some of the identified challenges in proposing system reconfiguration tools within the current industrial practice of a large international aerospace, space, ground transportation, defense, and security company are: (1) to identify the data necessary for reconfiguration, and (2) to provide a unified representation of all aspects of the reconfiguration process. To represent the data and arriving at a unified representation requires a model-based approach.…”

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“…Any change of these aspects can lead to “System Reconfiguration” to maintain its operational effectiveness. In accordance, “System Reconfiguration” is defined by the subsequent changes of system configurations with the objective of maintaining or adapting (increasing or decreasing) the capabilities provided by the system 4–6 . Optimizing configurations in terms of capabilities and available resources is needed to cope with environment or mission evolutions.…”

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System reconfiguration ontology to support model‐based systems engineering: Approach linking design and operations

Qasim

Hein

Olaru

et al. 2023

Systems Engineering

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System reconfiguration is essential in complex systems management, as it is an enabler of system flexibility and adaptability. It ensures system operation and increases reliability, availability, maintainability, testability, safety, and reuse of system entities and technologies. For the reconfiguration of a system in use, it is necessary to assess, in continuity, the system's state with regard to its context. Identifying data supporting system reconfiguration represents a major industrial challenge and is linked directly to the development of industrial reconfiguration tools. Reconfiguration tools are based on a data model, also called ontology, which represents key concepts of system reconfiguration and their relationships. A particular difficulty of developing the data model is the multi-domain nature of reconfiguration. Furthermore, it needs to address a considerable diversity of system types. Few publications propose an ontology supporting data identification and tool development for the entire process. Hence, in this paper we propose to formalize the system reconfiguration process and propose an overarching ontology, which we call OSysRec. This ontology considers data at the management, dynamics, and structure level. The proposed ontology has been developed based upon expert knowledge and several industrial uses cases. The OSysRec ontology allowed a better understanding of the reconfiguration process, and hence it can be deployed for developing efficient and effective reconfiguration tools at the industrial scale. The ontology has been tested on an industrial case study to validate the proposed approach.

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“…Reconfiguration [15] refers to the systematic switchings of various configurations of a system each of which exhibits a specific set of functionalities. In particular, coordination problem is a specific subclass of the reconfiguration problem which is vastly studied in different areas including power systems [16], hybrid systems [17], discrete-event systems [18], consensus of multi-agent systems [19], etc.…”

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Complete coordination of robotic fiber positioners for massive spectroscopic surveys

Macktoobian

Gillet

Kneib

2019

J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst.

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Robotic fiber positioners play a vital role in the generation of massive spectroscopic surveys. The more complete a positioners set is coordinated, the more information its corresponding spectrograph receives during an observation. The complete coordination problem of positioners sets is studied in this paper. We first define the local and the global completeness problems and determine their relationship. We then propose a new artificial potential field according to which the convergences of a positioner and its neighboring positioners are cooperatively taken into account. We also discover the required condition for a complete coordination. We finally explain how the modifications of some of the parameters of a positioners set may resolve its incompleteness coordination scenarios. We verify our accomplishments using simulations.

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Model-Based System Reconfiguration: A Descriptive Study of Current Industrial Challenges

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

An Analysis of Flexible Manufacturing on the Support of the Development of Smart Product-Service Systems

An Analysis of Flexible Manufacturing on the Support of the Development of Smart Product-Service Systems

System reconfiguration ontology to support model‐based systems engineering: Approach linking design and operations

Complete coordination of robotic fiber positioners for massive spectroscopic surveys

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