The ProFlex Methodology: Agile Manufacturing in Practice

  • Giovanni Di Orio
  • José Barata
  • Carlos Sousa
  • Luís Flores
Conference paper
Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT, volume 423)

Abstract

Today, manufacturing production systems are required to be responsive, re-configurable, adaptable, and flexible. The fulfilment of these requirements is directly related to the method used to design and develop their control applications. The paper presents the result of an investigation study to capture current techniques adopted by logic designers during the design and development of control applications at IntRoSys. The result of this study is then used as the foundation for the development of a methodology and its related tools for achieving agility in programming manufacturing control systems.

Keywords

Automation Automotive Industry Industrial Standards Controllers IEC-61131-3 Behavioural Modelling Code Generation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Giovanni Di Orio
    • 1
  • José Barata
    • 1
  • Carlos Sousa
    • 2
  • Luís Flores
    • 2
  1. 1.CTS – UNINOVA, Dep. de Eng. Electrotécnica, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade Nova de LisboaCaparicaPortugal
  2. 2.IntRoSys, SA – Global Control System DesignersMoitaPortugal

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