Metamodeling of Cyber-Physical Production Systems using AutomationML for Collaborative Innovation

A Metamodel-based Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS) Integration Framework is presented for building comprehensive models of cyber-physical production systems with information integration from various software based on flexible interoperability alignments without requiring time-consuming and deadlock-prone semantic standardization efforts. The framework facilitates building of flexible, extensible networks of loosely coupled, multi-vendor production-level software, simulation, analytics, and visualization tools for holistic analyses, enabling collaborative innovation of production systems. At its core lies an AutomationML-based Information Metamodel which together with a simulation forms the production system's digital twin. The framework is illustrated through its application to mining production systems.