Lossless exchange of graph based structure information of production systems by AutomationML

Following the increasing complexity of production systems and increasing consideration of engineering costs engineering processes have to be efficient and should generate fault free results. As different engineering disciplines, engineering tools and humans are involved in the engineering process information exchange is a crucial factor calling for standardized and lossless technological solutions. To avoid interpretation problems similar information should be exchanged by similar representations. As graph based structures very often can be seen within production systems the representation of graph based models within information exchange technologies should be unique. Within this paper a first attempt towards the development of a unique modeling approach for graph based structures within the standardized data exchange format AutomationML will be considered.