The Glue Logic: An Integrated Programming/Execution Environment for Distributed Manufacturing Work-Cell Control System

Abstract

In this paper, a infrastructural system designed for the factory automation applications, named "Glue Logie", is described. The Glue Logie provides an environment which supports the programming, controlling and monitoring the manufacturing system, mainly in the levels of manufacturing work-cells. And this environment also supports efficient manufacturing programming, by means of high program modularity and reusability.Using the service of the Glue Logie, users can easily implement data-sharing and taskinterlocking among multiple application processes developed and compiled separately. Furthermore, this system includes event notification message sending and condition monitoring features to eliminate needs of data polling by means of active databa::;e technique.As the result of the use of the Glue Logic, the application system can be build as a collection of the agents working together, and the Glue Logie itself acts as a message exchange and shared data space manager.

Implementation of a Layer Structured Control System on the ‘Glue Logic’

“…The Glue Logic is an infrastructural system designed to make building manufacturing work-cell control systems easy and flexible [1] [2]. This system binds multiple application software modules, referred as agents, developed separately, and coordinates agents by means of inter-process massage passing.…”