Evaluation of Middleware Technologies for the PLC-Service Bus in IEC 61499

Virendra Ashiwal; Mainak Majumder; Alois Zoitl

doi:10.1109/ETFA52439.2022.9921536

Evaluation of Middleware Technologies for the PLC-Service Bus in IEC 61499

Virendra Ashiwal
, Mainak Majumder
, Alois Zoitl

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Abstract

To address current challenges of production systems such as increased number of product variants, batch size one, and shorter product life cycle, they need to be modular, loosely coupled, and more adaptable than ever. A PLC-Service bus architecture has been proposed to improve the modularity and adaptability of a PLC-software. The architecture enables software components of PLC-software to interact via middleware in a loosely coupled manner. Previous work identified a catalog of message integration patterns for PLC-software, and IEC 61499 was proposed to implement the architecture. The current version of the IEC 61499 standard does not fully support all message integration patterns from the catalog.Therefore, this paper first identifies suitable middleware technologies for IEC 61499 and, later, based on the requirements of the PLC-Service bus architecture, evaluates them to propose the suitable middleware technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-9996-5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-9997-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA52439.2022.9921536
Publication status	Published - 25 Oct 2022

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA
Volume	2022-September
ISSN (Print)	1946-0740
ISSN (Electronic)	1946-0759

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202017 Embedded systems
102022 Software development
102025 Distributed systems
102029 Practical computer science
202003 Automation
202041 Computer engineering
102 Computer Sciences

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Digital Transformation

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Ashiwal, V., Majumder, M., & Zoitl, A. (2022). Evaluation of Middleware Technologies for the PLC-Service Bus in IEC 61499. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany (pp. 1-4). (IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA; Vol. 2022-September). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA52439.2022.9921536

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Evaluation of Middleware Technologies for the PLC-Service Bus in IEC 61499. / Ashiwal, Virendra; Majumder, Mainak ; Zoitl, Alois.
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany. IEEE, 2022. p. 1-4 (IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA; Vol. 2022-September).

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Ashiwal V, Majumder M , Zoitl A. Evaluation of Middleware Technologies for the PLC-Service Bus in IEC 61499. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany. IEEE. 2022. p. 1-4. (IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA). doi: 10.1109/ETFA52439.2022.9921536

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