Multi-disciplinary Engineering of Production Systems - Challenges for Quality of Control Software

摘要

Production systems and their inherent control systems are developed within an increasingly multi-disciplinary and increasingly complex engineering process which is, in addition, increasingly interlinked with the other life cycle phases of the production system. Surely this will have consequences for efficiency and correctness of the control system engineering. Within this paper bordering conditions and challenges of this multi-disciplinary engineering process will be discussed and a centralized data logistics will be presented as one possible mean for handling the identified challenges. Thereby, requirements to the further development in the field of standardized data exchange are discussed possibly supported by software industry.