Publication details
An IoT and Business Processes Based Approach for the Monitoring and Control of High Value-Added Manufacturing Processes
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems |
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| Web | https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3102341&CFID=996318447&CFTOKEN=91066867 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3102304.3102341 |
| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | Micro Injection Moulding; Internet of Things; Wireless Sensor Networks; Service Orientated Architecture; Business Processes; Google Gadgets |
| Description | Whilst the concept of IoT has already started to expand to some industrial environments, one industrial environment which still has not much exposure is the plastics industry environment made up of the Injection Moulding (IM), Micro Injection Moulding (uIM) and Extrusion line manufacturing processes. These processes would directly benefit from the IoT concept by making the environmental and high resolution process data available in real-time over the internet. This would have numerous benefits in terms of process monitoring, material and product quality, tracking, tracing and integration with other business components of an enterprise. In this paper we build upon a novel architecture for monitoring the uIM process using: IoT devices; distributed Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), with the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) at its core; Business Processes for linking with other standard processes and Google Applications for web monitoring. This approach applies the SOA to IoT gateway node in the micro-moulding environment, NI high speed data acquisition devices connected to uIM machines and simulated material drying processes. Evaluation results from the extended architecture show that the BPEL orchestration framework successfully invokes simulated business processes based on the environmental conditions. The ESB successfully initiates the orchestration of business processes whereas the googles gadget API successfully visualizes the results. Here we present; architectural design, system integration, and results for an initial test scenario. |