The general goal of the project is to improve the efficiency, quality and traceability of production systems by means of introducing a high layer of control through the fog. In particular, the project will focus on the design and development of a complete architecture able to execute user-defined applications in terms of plant data acquisition, filtering, processing, establishing methods and developing tools for enabling fog-in-the-loop applications. To achieve the general goal, the project targets a set of specific...

The aim of this project is to develop methodologies and tools to design and develop distributed control systems (DCS) with a high degree of flexibility, reliability, and reuse of developed applications. The great progress that has occurred in recent years, both for hardware systems specific to control (PLCs, industrial computers, industrial fieldbuses, controllers, etc.) and for multidisciplinary COTS tools (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) (code analysis, simulation and generation in different areas of knowledge) offers great...

The combination of Internet, intelligent machines, production systems and processes has derived in the fourth industrial revolution. This time, physical world is being seamlessly integrated into the productive processes through the network. The ‘Industry 4.0’ concept arises as a way to face the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution. But this concept is much more than the ‘internet of things’ or smart factory (both included in industry 4.0), as it emphasizes the idea of consistent...