Current approaches to manufacturing must evolve to respond to increasing demands for
short product life cycles and customised products. Adaptive manufacturing systems integrate …

Industry 4.0 has proposed the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) model for digital twins. This
model should help to solve interoperability issues, a topic that is also addressed by the …

Industry 4.0 envisions Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) to foster adaptive
production of mass-customizable products. Manufacturing approaches based on capabilities …

The research community is puzzled with words like skill, action, atomic unit and others when
describing robots' capabilities. However, for giving the possibility to integrate capabilities in …

Engineering distributed control systems is a complex task, where the complexity and, thus,
costs of the software development are growing rapidly. To keep the software complexity at …

In this work we emphasize the role of the engineering process within the industrial
automation domain and its underrepresentation in the Industry 4.0 community possibly …

Functionally described capabilities play an important role in the virtualization of
manufacturing and the resource-specific realization with the skill-based approach. The …

The use of industrial controllers in the environment of changeable industrial plants requires
the system-wide description of plants with their components and associated capabilities …

Modular production systems provide an important basis to react more flexibly to changing
and more individual production requirements. A challenge hereby is an appropriate …

Modular cyber-physical production systems are an important paradigm of Industry 4.0 to
react flexibly to changes. The flexibility of those systems is further increased with skill-based …