Organizing Self-Organizing Systems: A Terminology, Taxonomy, and Reference Model for Entities in Cyber-Physical Production Systems

2021 | Information Systems Frontiers | Citations: 0

Authors: Berger, Stephan; Häckel, Björn; Häfner, Lukas

Abstract: Ongoing digitalization accelerates the transformation and integration of physica ... Expand

Abstract: Ongoing digitalization accelerates the transformation and integration of physical production and traditional computing systems into smart objects and their interconnectivity, forming the Internet of Things. In manufacturing, the cross-linking of embedded systems creates adaptive and self-organizing Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs). Owing to ever-increasing cross-linking, rapid technological advances, and multifunctionality, the complexity and structural opacity of CPPSs are rapidly increasing. The development of urgently needed modeling approaches for managing such complexity and structural opacity, however, is impeded by a lack of common understanding of CPPSs. Therefore, in this paper, we contribute to a common understanding of CPPSs by defining and classifying CPPS entities and illustrating their relations. More precisely, we present a terminology, a taxonomy, and a reference model for CPPS entities, created and evaluated using an iterative development process. Thereby, we lay the foundation for future CPPS modeling approaches that make CPPS complexity and structural opacity more manageable. Collapse

Topics: computer hardware manufacturing information system network infrastructure robotic enterprise architecture

Methods: qualitative interview focus group literature study group interview design artifact