Agile Architecting of Distributed Systems for Flexible Industry 4.0

Small and medium sized businesses within mechanical manufacturing cannot benefit from Industry 4.0 automation as small production batches are unable to pay for up-front robotic configuration and programming costs. In this paper, we report on early results from a project aiming at developing a software architecture supporting fast, easy, and flexible reconfiguration of a robotic manufacturing process, using an agile and prototyping approach.

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1. Track 3: Software, System and Service Engineering

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2. Session: Joint 41st IEEE Software Engineering Workshop and 8th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems

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3. Short Papers