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The MMS standard provides a homogeneous environment for communications between manufacturing equipment. In order to harmonize the information and communication systems of a manufacturing plant, we propose to define a translator that allows generation of MMS objects from an EXPRESS analysis. We first present the MMS standard and the EXPRESS description language. We then describe the methodology that we have used. We finally show an example, which is based on our translator between these two formalisms.
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DIVOUX , T., RONDEAU , E. & LEPAGE , F. Using the EXPRESS language as a reference interface to define MMS communication. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 8, 59–66 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018544418379
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