Industrial Cloud-Based Cyber-Physical Systems, 2014
The IMC-AESOP Approach

This book presents cutting-edge emerging technologies and approaches in the areas of service-oriented architectures, intelligent devices and cloud-based cyber-physical systems. It provides a clear view on their applicability to the management and automation of manufacturing and process industries. It offers a holistic view of future industrial cyber-physical systems and their industrial usage and also depicts technologies and architectures as well as a migration approach and engineering tools based on these.

By providing a careful balance between the theory and the practical aspects, this book has been authored by several experts from academia and industry, thereby offering a valuable understanding of the vision, the domain, the processes and the results of the research. It has several illustrations and tables to clearly exemplify the concepts and results examined in the text and these are supported by four real-life case-studies.

We are witnessing rapid advances in the industrial automation, mainly driven by business needs towards agility and supported by new disruptive advances both on the software and hardware side, as well as the cross-fertilization of concepts and the amalgamation of information and communication technology-driven approaches in traditional industrial automation and control systems. This book is intended for technology managers, application designers, solution developers, engineers working in industry, as well as researchers, undergraduate and graduate students of industrial automation, industrial informatics and production engineering.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armando Walter Colombo is currently Director of the Institute for Industrial Informatics, Automation and Robotics (I2AR) and Edison L2 Group Senior Expert and Research Program Manager at Schneider Electric Automation GmbH. His research interests are in the fields of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), collaborative automation, intelligent supervisory control, formal specification of flexible automation systems. Prof. Colombo has authored/co-authored over 200 publications (peer-reviewed) in journals, books and chapters of books and conference proceedings and is co-author of 23 industrial patent applications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Industrial Electronic Society and member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. Prof. Colombo is the Schneider Electric representative in ARTEMIS (European Embedded Systems Platform), co-leading the Sub-Program ASP 4 associated to the ARTEMIS Strategic Research Agenda and he acts as expert of the Framework Programs of the European Commission.

Dr. Thomas Bangemann is Deputy Head of the ifak Institut f. Automation und Kommunikation e.V., Magdeburg. Formerly he headed the departments of IT and Automation as well as of Industrial Communication Systems at ifak. His focus is on the subjects of industrial communication and automation systems and their application as well as the introduction of information and integration technologies into these areas. During the last few years he has been involved in several European and national funded projects, e.g. SOCRADES, AIMES, PROTEUS or IMC-AESOP. He is a member of several working groups within the ZVEI (Steering Committee for Communication in Automation), VDI/VDE-GMA (Cyber Physical Systems) and PROFIBUS International and he also gives lectures for Process Control at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal.

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Presents cutting edge technologies in the areas of service-oriented architectures, intelligent devices and cloud-based systems

Offers a holistic view of future industrial cyber-physical systems and their industrial usage

Provides a careful balance between the theory and practical aspects of this research

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