Development of a method for the implementation of interoperable tool chains applying mechatronical thinking — Use case engineering of logic control

Following the increasing complexity of production systems, the increasing relevance of complete life cycle coverage, and increasing consideration of engineering costs engineering processes have to be efficient and should generate fault free results. Therefore, mechatronical thinking and interoperability along tool chains are potential supporting means. Within this paper the impact of mechatronical thinking on the engineering process for production systems, the provision of interoperability of engineering activities and tools along the engineering process and the resulting structures will for data exchange be considered. Based on the use case of control system engineering a methodology for the creation of a interoperable tool chain exploiting data exchange formats and meta modeling is given.