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@article{nokey,

title = {Developing an AI-enabled Industry 4.0 platform - Performance experiences on deploying AI onto an industrial edge device},

author = {Holger Eichelberger and Gregory Palmer and Claudia Niederee},

issn = {0702-8928},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-02-01},

journal = {Softwaretechnik-Trends},

volume = {43},

number = {1},

pages = {35-37},

publisher = {GI},

abstract = {Maximizing the benefits of AI for Industry 4.0 is about more than just developing effective new AI methods. Of equal importance is the successful integration of AI into production environments. One open challenge is the dynamic deployment of AI on industrial edge devices within close proximity to manufacturing machines. Our IIP-Ecosphere platform was designed to overcome limitations of existing Industry 4.0 platforms. It supports flexible AI deployment through employing a highly configurable low-code based approach, where code for tailored platform components and applications is generated. In this paper, we measure the performance of our platform on an industrial demonstrator and discuss the impact of deploying AI from a central server to the edge. As result, AI inference automatically deployed on an industrial edge is possible, but in our case three times slower than on a desktop computer, requiring still more optimizations.},

keywords = {IIP-Ecosphere, Industrie 4.0, Industry 4.0, Platform},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Performance Evaluation of BaSyx based Asset Administration Shells for Industry 4.0 Applications},

author = {Christian Severin Sauer and Holger Eichelberger},

issn = {0702-8928},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-02-01},

journal = {Softwaretechnik-Trends},

volume = {43},

number = {1},

pages = {47-49},

publisher = {GI},

abstract = {The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) is an upcoming information model standard, which aims at interoperable modeling of “assets”, i.e., products, machines, services or digital twins in IIoT/Industry 4.0. Currently, a number of IIoT-platforms use proprietary information models similar to AAS, but not a common standard, which affects interoperability.A key question for a broad uptake is if AAS can be applied in a performant and scalable manner. In this paper, we examine this question for the open source Eclipse BaSyx middleware. To explore capabilities and possible performance limitations, we present four experiments measuring the performance of experimental AAS in BaSyx and, within the context set by our experiments, i.e., 10-1000 AAS instances, can conclude good scalability.},

keywords = {Asset Administration Shells, IIP-Ecosphere, Industrie 4.0, Industry 4.0, Platform, Verwaltungsschale},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {Adapting Kubernetes to IIoT and Industry 4.0 protocols - An initial performance analysis},

author = {Ahmad Alamoush and Holger Eichelberger},

issn = {0702-8928},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-02-01},

urldate = {2023-02-01},

journal = {Softwaretechnik-Trends},

volume = {43},

number = {1},

pages = {41-43},

publisher = {GI},

abstract = {Kubernetes (K8s) is one of the most frequently used container orchestration tools offering, as it offers a rich set of functions to manage containerized applications, it is customizable and extensible. Container virtualization of applications and their orchestration on heterogeneous resources including edge devices is a recent trend in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)/Industry 4.0, where K8s is also applied. However, IIoT/Industry 4.0 is a domain with high standardization requirements. Besides equipment standards, e.g., for electrical control cabinets, there are also demands to standardize network protocols, data formats or information models. Such standards can foster interoperability and reduce complexity or deployment/integration costs. Here, the proprietary communication protocol of K8s and similar orchestrators can be an obstacle for adoption. To explore this situation from an interoperability and integration perspective, we present in this paper an approach to replace the communication protocol of K8s without modifying its code base. We show by an experiment that applying our approach with three current forms of IIoT communication, namely Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), and Asset Administration Shell (AAS), does not significantly affect the validity and the performance of K8s.},

keywords = {IIoT, IIoT-Platform, IIP-Ecosphere, Platform},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}