Industrial systems communications: design and integration

The configuration of the communication between entities of an automated pro duction system could be derived from the design of its information system. Thus, our objective is the design and integration of the industrial communi cations of distributed automated systems. Based on the information system s tudy, without having recourse to new modelling tools, we want to generate t he configuration of the communication system while guaranteeing consistency between these two systems. Hence we offer to the designer of the productio n system the means that are necessary for the realization of his or her sys tem. In order to reach our objective we are using object-oriented design me thods (i.e. OMT: Object Modelling Technique) for the information system stu dy and the industrial protocol MMS (Manufacturing Message Specification) fo r the communication system. In order to allow the transition step from conc eptual stage of the information system to the MMS environment, we have defi ned some translation rules. These rules are studied from the point of view of the implementation constraints. In order to validate our approach and it s feasibility we have presented a remote control application of an industri al robot with feedback video for which the MMS objects and services are gen erated.