Routes for integrating auto-ID systems into manufacturing control middleware environments

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Author	Chokshi, Nn Mcfarlane, Duncan John Thorne, Alan
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	A key issue in developing Auto-ID technology is the requirement for a supporting information infrastructure. Unlike conventional automatic identification techniques such as bar-codes or RFID, which have remained limited to product-type identification only, the facility of instance-level product information in Auto-ID will lead to a multi-fold increase in the amount of data to be processed in real-time. How to handle such data effectively and economically will be crucial in developing the technology itself. Equally important will be the investigation of different routes along which this information passes – from sensing of tags to final use in business applications – so as to guarantee that only the right amount of information is retrieved at a particular location and that none of the useful information is discarded mistakenly. Along the path of migration to fully Auto-ID compliant operations, there will also be a need to re-use relevant infrastructure that exists already in various application domains. In manufacturing control in particular, the use of bar-codes or RFID for product identification has been in place for quite some time and there exist a good understanding, both at the hardware as well as software level, for integrating product-type information within real-time control decisions. Similarly, modern industrial database systems have become increasingly sophisticated and easy-to-use for storing and retrieving large amounts of real-time, time-consistent information. A close scrutiny of such existing facilities could prove valuable to technology developers to effectively migrate to Auto-ID framework and could also prove useful to vendors for developing “out-of-the-box” design of manufacturing information systems. We refer to the set of applications managing the interface between real-time sensory data and business information systems as “middleware”. Focussing particularly on the middleware requirements in manufacturing information and control environments, we investigate some of the above issues in this paper. The three principle aims of our analysis are as follows: 1. To review the existing use of automatic identification techniques in manufacturing control environment by understanding the operations of two to three dominant control system products available “off-the-shelf”; 2. To examine the capability of such systems for dealing with Auto-ID information and, in particular, managing the relatively high volume of real-time data generated on the production shop-floor; 3. To proposed and analyse different routes through which Auto-ID infrastructure could be effectively integrated within industrial data management and control environment. Nirav Chokshi, Alan Thorne, Duncan McFarlane white paper Routes for Integrating Auto-ID Systems into Manufacturing Control Middleware Environments Published October 1, 2003. Distribution restricted to Sponsors until January 1, 2004. CAM-AUTOID-WH-026 ©2003 Copyright 1 Routes for Integrating Auto-ID Systems into Manufacturing Control Middleware Environments white paper
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