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

Stephan Berger (), Björn Häckel () and Lukas Häfner ()
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Stephan Berger: Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT
Björn Häckel: Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT
Lukas Häfner: Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT

Information Systems Frontiers, 2021, vol. 23, issue 2, No 10, 414 pages

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Digitalization; Cyber-physical (production) systems; Terminology; Taxonomy; Reference model; Smart objects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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