TY - JOUR
T1 - Perspective for equipment automation in process industries
AU - Sun, Bei
AU - Jämsä-Jounela, Sirkka-Liisa
AU - Todorov, Yancho
AU - Olivier, Laurentz
AU - Craig, Ian
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Advances in digital technologies are improving manufacturing systems dramatically. These advances, along with increased interconnectivity of devices, have launched the Industry 4.0 initiative that is concerned with how cyber physical systems and the internet of things can create adaptive, modularised, efficient, and reliable processing systems. This work presents a perspective on how equipment automation can contribute to this goal. Some of the main obstacles in the way of efficient and flexible operations are highlighted. How these may be overcome through equipment automation to form a cyber physical automation network is also presented. The effective integration of these methods can realize the vision of Industry 4.0 in the processing industry.
AB - Advances in digital technologies are improving manufacturing systems dramatically. These advances, along with increased interconnectivity of devices, have launched the Industry 4.0 initiative that is concerned with how cyber physical systems and the internet of things can create adaptive, modularised, efficient, and reliable processing systems. This work presents a perspective on how equipment automation can contribute to this goal. Some of the main obstacles in the way of efficient and flexible operations are highlighted. How these may be overcome through equipment automation to form a cyber physical automation network is also presented. The effective integration of these methods can realize the vision of Industry 4.0 in the processing industry.
KW - equipment automation
KW - process control system
KW - automation
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896317335474
U2 - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.12.012
DO - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.12.012
M3 - Conference article
SN - 2405-8963
VL - 50
SP - 65
EP - 70
JO - IFAC-PapersOnLine
JF - IFAC-PapersOnLine
IS - 2
T2 - Control Conference Africa
Y2 - 7 December 2017 through 8 December 2017
ER -