Creating a distributed factory object architecture

The paper presents the development of a distributed architecture for the factory automation domain by applying the object-oriented domain engineering (OODE) method. The first part of the paper talks about extending formally defined object-oriented analysis and design (OOA&D) methods with domain engineering (DE) concepts. It defines the resulting OODE workflow, deliverables, and development cycle. The goal of the OODE workflow is to produce a generic object-oriented (OO) model, which spans a domain and from this model a domain framework for the rapid assembly of applications using a distributed object architecture. The second part of the paper presents case studies of OODE for two factory domain frameworks: machine monitoring system and data collection. The paper presents some findings on merging the two factory domain projects into an overall factory architecture. Then it concludes with a look at incorporating knowledge acquisition techniques to improve the OODE workflow