Model based synthesis of automation functionality

Abstract

Abstract The article demonstrates the advantages of meta-model-based solutions for multi-aspect automation tasks. Multi-aspect tasks require solutions that consider information of multiple system aspects simultaneously. In today's practice, these aspects are maintained in different tools which make implicitly use of tool-driven system models. In contrast, we propose to prioritize the models in order to facilitate the handling of multi-aspect automation tasks. The article exemplifies this idea by introducing typical automation and engineering models and illustrates their utility in a use-case example.