Gateway and method for transforming a data model of a manufacturing process equipment

A gateway for transforming a data model of a multiplicity of manufacturing process equipment into an industrial information model for automation purposes, the gateway comprising:

• one or more processors for executing a set of modules;
• a communication channel connecting the one or more processors to the multiplicity of manufacturing process equipment;
• the set of modules including:
• a parsing module for parsing information entities in the data model of the manufacturing process equipment by applying a communication protocol of the data model;
• a semantic mapping engine for transforming the information entities into the industrial information model, wherein the semantic mapping engine uses a runtime environment to execute a set of knowledge-based mapping rules;
• an interface module for providing access to the industrial information model;
• a mapping knowledge unit including a mapping rule base for maintaining one or more declarative mapping rules;
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• a mapping compiler for transforming the declarative mapping rules into executable code, for compiling the executable code into the set of knowledge-based mapping rules and for feeding the set of knowledge-based mapping rules into the runtime environment of the semantic mapping engine.