Introduction To Intelligent Open Architecture Control

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Introduction To Intelligent Open Architecture
Control
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Why IOAC

• A seamless flow of information and total
  integration throughout the enterprise
• An example of lack of interoperability costing

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Program Goal

• By 2005, develop and validate key interface
  standards, and conformance tests for those
  standards, to achieve interoperability among
  control systems for machines on the factory
  floor, and between these systems and design and
  planning systems, as well as factory data
  networks.

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Technical Approach

• Interoperability requires three steps
• vendor agreement to a common architecture that
  defines system components and their
  relationships,
• development and implementation of valid
  interface specifications, and
• establishment of conformance tests for
  determining whether products faithfully implement
  the specifications and achieve plug-and-play
  operation.

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Program Objectives and Technical Outputs

• By FY2005, provide conformance tests for
  standards for data interoperability for machining
  and metrology equipment.
• Technical Outputs
• FY2003 Conformance tests for the I DME
  interface.
• FY2004 STEP-NC pilot testing report on
  conformance tests for computer numerical control
  (CNC) machine tools.
• FY2005 STEP-NC conformance tests for
  computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and CNC.

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Anticipated Outcomes

• Accelerate the implementation and commercial
  availability of controllers with advanced
  capabilities, and to
• Reduce controller life cycle costs.

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Standards Participation

• ISO Technical Committee (TC)184/Sub-committee
  (SC)4, Industrial automation systems and
  integration/Industrial Data, for ISO 10303 AP
  238, the STEP-NC Application Interpreted Model
• ISO TC 184/SC1/Working Group (WG)7, Industrial
  automation systems and integration/ Physical
  device control/Data modeling for integration of
  physical devices for ISO 14649, the STEP-NC
  Application Reference Model
• RIA R15.04, for robot controller communication
  and information
• American Welding Society (AWS) A9, for
  Computerization of Welding Information
• CAM-I (Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing -
  International) subcommittee of DMIS (Dimensional
  Measuring Interface Standard) National Committee

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Research at other universities

• The University of Michigan
• The University of California at Berkeley
• Purdue University
• University of British Columbia
• Tampere University of Technology