Industrial machines as a service: modelling industrial machinery processes

In this paper is proposed a service model for the industrial machinery which provides a design pattern which details, classifies and organises the services that ideally the machine should possess in order to facilitate its self-management and proactive management of the business logic for which it is responsible. This pattern also establishes those services which will enable the machine to communicate and cooperate with other machines or manufacturing elements, as well as with the remaining business processes. The proposed pattern are based on service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services extensions (WS-*) in order to ensure that the industrial machinery attains high levels of self management and especially so that it can show the rest of the organisation and from a perspective of functionality, in a normalised manner, overcoming barriers imposed by technological and physical restrictions typical of these components and which traditionally have kept them isolated from the general business model.This work was supported by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain, under Grant TIN2006-04081