Kristof Meixner, Rick Rabiser, Stefan Biffl,
"Towards Modeling Variability of Products, Processes, and Resources in CPPS"
: Second International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-Intensive Systems (VariVolution 2019), collocated with the 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference 2019, ACM, Paris, France, Seite(n) 49-56, 9-2019
Original Titel:
Towards Modeling Variability of Products, Processes, and Resources in CPPS
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Second International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-Intensive Systems (VariVolution 2019), collocated with the 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference 2019
Original Kurzfassung:
Planning and developing Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are multi-disciplinary engineering activities that rely on effective and efficient knowledge exchange for better collaboration between engineers of different disciplines. The Product-Process-Resource (PPR) approach allows modeling products produced by industrial processes using specific production resources. In practice, a CPPS manufactures a portfolio of product type variants, i.e., a product line. Therefore, engineers need to create and maintain several PPR models to cover PPR variants and their evolving versions. In this paper, we detail a representative use case, identify challenges for using Variability Modeling (VM) methods to describe and manage PPR variants, and present a first solution approach based on cooperation with domain experts at an industry partner, a system integrator of automation for high-performance CPPS. We conclude that integrating basic variability concepts into PPR models is a promising first step and describe our further research plans to support PPR VM in CPPS.