Deep learning for smart manufacturing: Methods and applications

Industry 4.0: A bibliometric analysis and detailed overview

Service-Oriented Computing

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) encompasses a plethora of digital technologies effecting on manufacturing enterprises. Most research on this topic examines the effects in the smart factory domain, focusing on ...

The applications of Industry 4.0 technologies in manufacturing context: a systematic literature review

The world is marching into a new development period when the digital technology, physical technology, and biological technology have achieved an unprecedented development respectively in their own fields, and at the same time their applications are converging greatly. These are the three major technological drivers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This paper discusses the specific technology niches of each kind technological driver behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and then evaluates impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on global industrial, economic, and social development. At last this paper proposes possible measures and policies for both firms and governments to cope with the changes brought by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Fourth Industrial Revolution: technological drivers, impacts and coping methods

The purpose of the Industry 4.0 initiative is to bring together IT technologies and production processes to enable the emergence of smart, connected manufacturing. Integration is, however, a complex activity that requires rethought in the context of manufacturing. Indeed, new, challenging requirements are emerging, such as dynamicity, heterogeneity, or autonomicity. Here, the authors present Cilia, a mediation middleware designed for smart manufacturing. Cilia is based on service-oriented components. It provides dynamic and autonomic features, allowing great flexibility at runtime with minimum human intervention. The authors also apply a real use case that involves supervision and maintenance of pumping stations.

Autonomic Mediation Middleware for Smart Manufacturing

The purpose of pervasive applications is to be invisible and to require a minimal amount of user attention. But invisibility raises lots of hard challenges, blocking the long-awaited pervasive era to emerge. The device heterogeneity and volatility, security enforcement and context-awareness are just some of the issues a developer must tackle inside the application code. To industrialize such development, we propose to use an application server dedicated to the pervasive environment. Thanks to this server, developers focus on the application, delegating to the server most of the pervasive constraint management. However, providing such a platform is a very difficult task. The pervasive environment constraints must be handled by this server in a consistent way, while being flexible enough to support the different applications. This paper describes the requirements of the pervasive applications and how our platform, named iCASA, deals with them.

Lessons Learned in Building Pervasive Platforms

In this paper, we present a process-oriented tool allowing the specification of security properties at the service composition level. The tool is based on the notions of abstract and concrete services as well as on the concept of separation of concerns. It provides a framework that allows different people to effectively discuss security issues. Abstract services can be viewed as activities rather than as technical services and are such better understood by non-technical people. Similarly, security is discussed in terms of needs and no complex security technologies are to be specified. The tool relies between these two meta-models specifying orchestration-related concepts and security concepts. Meta-links between the meta-models have been defined to specify the authorized security constraints on the orchestrated services. The tool has been validated on an application specified by Thales.

Security Specification at Process Level

Service composition is complex. It has to reach a set of pre-defined non-functional qualities, like security for instance, which requires the production of complicated code.This code, often distributed between client and server sides, is highly error-prone and difficult to maintain. In this paper, we present a generative environment for the orchestration of abstract services and the separate specification of non-functional properties. This environment has been built within the European SODA project and validated on several industrial use cases. In this paper, we focus on an alarm management scenario with stringent security requirements.

An Extensible Abstract Service Orchestration Framework

Pervasive computing envisions environments where computers are blended into everyday objects in order to provide added-value services to people. A growing number of advanced embedded systems, extended with computing and communication capabilities, are already appearing around us. However, pervasive applications raise major challenges in terms of software engineering and remain hard to develop, deploy, execute, and maintain. We believe that autonomic techniques are here needed, in particular to deal with context-awareness. In this paper, we propose to handle context management in a service-oriented pervasive platform by defining a self-aware solution and associated mechanisms. Our approach is illustrated with a smart home example implemented in our pervasive platform iCasa.

Stephanie Chollet

Papers

Autonomic Mediation Middleware for Smart Manufacturing

Lessons Learned in Building Pervasive Platforms

Security Specification at Process Level

An Extensible Abstract Service Orchestration Framework

Self-Aware Context in Smart Home Pervasive Platforms