Design and Instantiation of a Modular System Architecture for Smart Factories

This paper describes a system architecture modular production plants in the discrete, loosely connected flow production. The system architecture serves as solution pattern for the conception of modern production plants, which are characterized by mechatronic changeability, individualized mass production and internal and external networking. The system architecture is complemented by a set of cross-manufacturer specifications on mechanical, electromechanical and information technology-related aspects, which were developed, applied and demonstrated by means of the example of the pilot plant of the SmartFactory(KL) (C) 2016, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.