Invoking Web services from programmable logic controllers

Author

Stoidner, Christoph ; Freisleben, Bernd

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

13-16 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The adoption of service-oriented architectures based on web services in industrial application domains enables the seamless integration of business software with manufacturing tasks and promises increased interoperability. To be able to invoke a manufacturing task running on a programmable logic controller (PLC) as a web service from a business application, the SOAP4PLC engine has been proposed. In this paper, an extension of the SOAP4PLC engine is presented to invoke a web service based business application from a PLC application. A use case is shown in which the extended SOAP4PLC engine is used to interface a PLC application concerned with realizing the functionality of a charging station for electrical vehicles with a web service based accounting system.

Keywords

Web services; manufacturing processes; open systems; programmable controllers; software architecture; S0AP4PLC engine; Web service based accounting system; business software; electrical vehicle; programmable logic controller; service oriented architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2010 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Bilbao

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6848-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641160

Filename

5641160