Edge configuration of software systems for manufacturing

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions, that when executed, control a computer system to be configured for:

• receiving a specification of a manufacturing system that is generated using a modeling language, the modeling language allowing a layout of a set of machines in the manufacturing system to be specified;
• retrieving available software systems from a software provider;
• analyzing the specification to determine applicable software systems for the manufacturing system;
• generating a configuration based on the analysis of the layout of the set of machines for the manufacturing system, the configuration specifying one or more instances of software systems to be installed on an edge system between the manufacturing system and a remote computing environment and the set of machines;
• and
• deploying the one or more instances of the software systems on the edge system and the set of machines, wherein the edge system orchestrates operations on the set of machines operating in the manufacturing system in real-time, and wherein the edge system communicates with the remote computing environment for non-real time operations on the set of machines.

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions, that when executed, control the one or more computer processors to be configured for:
• receiving a specification of a manufacturing system that is generated using a modeling language, the modeling language allowing a layout of a set of machines in the manufacturing system to be specified;
• retrieving available software systems from a software provider;
• analyzing the specification to determine applicable software systems for the manufacturing system;
• generating a configuration based on the analysis of the layout of the set of machines for the manufacturing system, the configuration specifying one or more instances of software systems to be installed on an edge system between the manufacturing system and a remote computing environment and the set of machines;
• and
• deploying the one or more instances of the software systems on the edge system and the set of machines, wherein the edge system orchestrates operations on the set of machines operating in the manufacturing system in real-time, and wherein the edge system communicates with the remote computing environment for non-real time operations on the set of machines.