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Towards a Standards-Based Domain Specific Language for Industry 4.0 Architectures

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Advances in research and development paved the way for a new revolution concerning industrial manufacturing, called Industry 4.0. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) contain methods for ubiquitous monitoring of information and synchronizing it with any other component on each hierarchical level participating in the value chain. Developing Industry 4.0 architectures for pointing out the structural cooperation of these Systems of systems (SoS) is a challenging task including a lot of different stakeholders. To bring together knowledge and experience, a common methodology is necessary. Regarding this, several German industrial associations created a suitable reference architecture, called Reference Architecture Model Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0). In this paper, a Domain Specific Systems Engineering approach using a Domain Specific Language (DSL) based on the results of this reference architecture is proposed and evaluated by a suitable case study.

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    The RAMI Toolbox is publicly available for download at http://www.rami-toolbox.org/download.

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    A click-through model is available at http://www.rami-toolbox.org/UseCaseShoes.

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Binder, C., Neureiter, C., Lastro, G., Uslar, M., Lieber, P. (2019). Towards a Standards-Based Domain Specific Language for Industry 4.0 Architectures. In: Bonjour, E., Krob, D., Palladino, L., Stephan, F. (eds) Complex Systems Design & Management. CSD&M 2018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04209-7_4

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