US 9,134,726 B2Granted

Method for configuration SOA-based automation devices and for developing an orchestration machine, production method and production system in service-oriented architecture having embedded service orchestration engine

AssigneeSchneider Electric Automation GmbH

InventorsArmando Walter Colombo, Joao Marco Mendes, Axel Bepperling

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Abstract

A method for configuring an automation device or simulator for controlling mechatronics components of an automation system, including: generating HLPN component models for each type of the mechatronic components of the automation system, creating a component instance model from an HLPN component model for each physically present mechatronic component, creating a layout configuration file, which describes relationships of the component instance models to be connected, composing the component instance models into a system model based on the layout configuration file, wherein logic ports of the component instance models are connected/linked to each other, generating configuration files based on a system model and device description files and WSDL files of the component instance models, loading the configuration files into the automation device or simulator containing the HLPN orchestration machine, and executing the configuration files by the HLPN orchestration machine of the automation device or the simulator.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A method for configuration of SOA-based automation devices having an embedded High-Level Petri Net Orchestration Engine for controlling mechatronic components of an automation system, comprising the process steps:

generation of HLPN component models for each type of mechatronic component of the automation system,
creation of a Component Instance Model from an HLPN component model for each physically present mechatronic component,
creation of a Layout Configuration File, which describes relationships among the Component Instance Models,
composition of the Component Instance Models to form at least one System Model based on the Layout Configuration File, such that logic ports of the Component Instance Models are interconnected/linked to one another,
generation of Configuration Files based on the at least one System Model as well as Device Descriptor Files and WSDL files of the Component Instance Models, such that the configuration files include at least one Device Configuration File and one Service Configuration File,
loading the configuration files into the automation device containing the HLPN orchestration engine, wherein the configuration file comprises data on hosted service information with the required discovery hints or a service endpoint address for the HLPN orchestration engine to resolve referenced component services, and the device configuration file has a service class descriptor with referenced types of ports and a model representation,
execution of the configuration files by the distributed HLPN orchestration engines of the automation devices.

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A manufacturing method for manufacturing products by the cooperation of a plurality of mechatronic components and/or devices such as transport units, lifters or workstations,

wherein a group of automation devices and/or devices or a mechatronic component and/or device is/are controlled an automation device,
wherein the automation devices communicate via a network with one another and with a Production Execution System in a service-oriented manner,
wherein the automation device assigned to a mechatronic component and/or device or to a group of mechatronic components and/or devices is configured such that the mechatronic components and/or the device or the group of mechatronic components and/or devices can be offered and retrieved as a logic device, and functions of the mechatronic component and/or device or the group of mechatronic components and/or devices can be retrieved as an elementary service in the network,
wherein at least two Service Orchestration Engines re provided for implementing the manufacturing method, each Service Orchestration Engine being configured such that elementary services of one group of mechatronic components and/or devices which belong together from the standpoint of manufacturing technology are orchestrated and represented in the network on the basis of interconnected and/or synchronized orchestration and/or behavior models,
wherein the orchestration and/or behavior models are interconnected via ports, such that a model based on the linking of individual behavior models of groups of mechatronic components is generated, data being inserted into the underlying Petri Net models for the linking of the models, and a linking file such as an XML file is defined, in which there is a description of which models are connected over which ports, and
wherein the orchestration models are interconnected via ports, such that mutual communication of multiple Orchestration Engines and their respective models is performed by offering and utilizing services via a service inquiry/response/event mechanism.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/395,160Filed 9 Sep 2010
Priority: DE 10 2009 043 9689 Sep 2009
Published: US 2012/0265324 A118 Oct 2012
Granted: 15 Sep 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G05B 19/41885
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G05B 19/4188
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G05B 2219/31196
From computer integrated manufacturing till monitoring: sOAP, describes available services and how to call them remotely
G05B 2219/32136
Operator till task planning: web service oriented architecture for manufacturing and automation