Title :
SOAP4PLC: Web Services for Programmable Logic Controllers
Author :
Mathes, Markus ; Stoidner, Christoph ; Heinzl, Steffen ; Freisleben, Bernd
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Marburg, Marburg
Abstract :
The use of service-oriented architectures based on web services in the manufacturing layer of industrial enterprises yields vertical integration and promises increased interoperability and flexibility. Unfortunately, two main obstacles complicate the use of web services in the manufacturing layer. First, the hardware/software used in this layer differs from the hardware/software used in other layers. Second, the manufacturing layer is maintained by automation engineers who typically are not familiar with web services. This paper presents the first SOAP engine for programmable logic controllers to advance the use of web services in the manufacturing layer. The engine offers a low memory footprint to respect the low computational power of programmable logic controllers and allows to export web services automatically without intervention of an automation engineer.
Keywords :
Web services; programmable controllers; software architecture; Web services; programmable logic controllers; service-oriented architectures; Engines; Hardware; Maintenance engineering; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing industries; Power engineering and energy; Programmable control; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Web services; Industrial Automation; Programmable Logic Controller (PLC); SOAP; Service-Oriented Architecture; Web Services;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, 2009 17th Euromicro International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Weimar
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3544-9
DOI :
10.1109/PDP.2009.42