From ISA 88/95 meta-models to an OPC UA-based development tool for CPPS under IEC 61499

Abstract

In the era of Industry 4.0, fast-growing requirements for an agile and effective vertical integration are challenging the smart manufacturing. Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS) technology plays a key role in the Industry 4.0 factory. One of the reasons for this is that shop floor data collection, monitoring and processing are enabled by CPPS devices together with IEC 61499 standard. To this end modeling and developing software and hardware components focused on distributed control systems are provided. This improvement in data monitoring and processing results not only in an optimization of equipment predictive maintenance but also in the ability to integrate new control techniques. This approach provides the Oil&Gas industry with the foundation to transform their traditional production fields into Intelligent Oil Field (IOF) environments. The aim of this paper is to build bridges between the state of technology and the design of industrial control applications. In particular, a CPPS platform developed through a software engineering tool giving support to the design of applications is proposed. It is based on the IEC 61499 and on a configurable OPC-UA server that maps field device data into an ISA95/88-based information model. Thus, this proposal will not only save Oil&Gas engineer time, it also will save efforts of adopting this promising technology.