This paper presents one perspective on recent developments related to software
engineering in the industrial automation sector that spans from manufacturing factory …

The capability to shorten the process of engineering technical systems, from the mission to
build the system to the final commissioning of the system, has become a critical factor for …

Development processes of large-scale automation systems, eg, power plants and
manufacturing systems involve engineers from various disciplines, eg, mechanical …

In a multi-disciplinary engineering project, such as the parallel engineering of industrial
production plants, domain experts want to efficiently monitor project-level constraints that …

Stricter requirements on the quality of industrial plant operation together with environmental
limits and decreasing energy consumption bring more complex automation systems. The …

Modern industrial automation systems engineering (ASE) environments have to
accommodate for heterogeneity coming from the engineering disciplines involved, the …

Software and systems development in industry typically focus on constructing high-quality
products by using traditional or agile software processes and applying established tools and …

In the context of large engineering projects the effective and efficient exchange and
versioning of information from different engineering disciplines is essential. Semantic data …

Automation Systems Engineering projects typically depend on the collaboration of several
engineering disciplines. While available software tools are supporting individual …

Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of engineering combining disciplines like
mechanical, electronic or software engineering, in order to design and manufacture useful …