Vertical Integration of Decision-Relevant Production Information into IT Systems of Manufacturing Companies

SOA-PLC – Dynamic Generation and Deployment of Web Services on a Programmable Logic Controller

“…Manufacturing companies can gain an important competitive advantage by adapting their production systems dynamically to new conditions, like changing or new product variants, process optimizations, or the current order situation. The enabler for this desired agility is a highly integrated and consistent information flow between the business process and technological process [Gerber et al 2013]. Additionally, the control software should be easy to reuse and adapt in order to save efforts during reconfiguration tasks [Westkämper and Zahn 2009].…”