Modelling Capabilities for Functional Configuration of Part Feeding Equipment

This paper introduces a configuration framework for automatic configuration of production systems. The proposed framework consists of three key aspects; 1) functional configuration, 2) interface configuration and 3) behavioral configuration, that together offers the ability to automatically identify production resources, and aggregate them to form a production system. The main focus of this work is to model functional capabilities to facilitate automatic suggestion of part feeding resources, and exemplifies different approaches to model part feeding capabilities.Peer reviewe