B2MML as an exchange format for asset administration shells as part of a plug-and-produce process for a fluid power engineering application

Abstract

One development in the course of industrial digitalisation, which is being driven forward particularly in the German-speaking countries and will gain in importance in the future, is that of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) [1]. The present work deals with the distribution, instantiation and use of those AASs for assets within the domain of a fluid power engineering application, which by themselves do not currently have the corresponding hardware and software for harbouring an AAS. The Business to Manufacturing Markup Language (B2MML) is used here for the deployment and instantiation of these AASs. In the present work, B2MML is extended with the concept definitions of AAS using its enhancement mechanisms. The distribution of the AASs to computing resources then takes place using B2MML and its transaction definitions. Furthermore, B2MML is used in a submodel to orchestrate process queues. In the course of the FL4 research project, B2MML is integrated as a partial model into the AAS and is used for orchestrating the Plug-and-Produce processes one the business and on subordinate levels.