On guided and automatic control configuration selection

Selecting appropriate control configurations becomes increasingly important and complex. This is due to the trend of increased level of automation and connectedness which is promoted by Industry 4.0 and supported by technologies relating to cyber-physical systems and the industrial internet of things. In this scenario, there are trade-offs between simplicity of the control configurations, achievable performance, vulnerability and maintainability. The paper reviews different state of the art tools before integrating them in guidelines and in automatic methods that support the practitioners in the design on control configurations.