Papyrus/customizations/manufacturing/aas/toolset

Papyrus For Manufacturing Toolset Architecture

The development process of the Papyrus For Manufacturing toolset is presented.

The process is iterative and lays on quick iterations between the different steps, from requirements specification, to design and implementation.

After requirements collection, the design of the Papyrus For Manufacturing Toolset has been established.

The functional architecture of the toolset is depicted.

The architecture of the toolset is organized as follows:

- Modeling layer: this is the layer that implements all the modeling functionalities for the AAS standard. It is developed as an extension of the Papyrus modeling tool. It enables:

  • importing and exporting AASx modules from and to an AASx repository

  • Creating AAS modules from scratch

  • Creating Systems designs by combining different AAS modules

  • Communication protocol configuration before code generation

- Code generation layer: contains the code generation functionality that transforms AAS modules designed Papyrus into executable artifacts that will run in Basyx.

- Execution layer: this is the execution platform that will run the AAS modules. It is based on the open source middleware Basyx.

- Synchronization mechanisms: as a part of the synchronization mechanism, the CanvAAS API has been updated and equipped with the Milo OPCUA Client Interface. The generated code with the help of the helper classes can now enable the asset, submodels and its elements access one or multiple server endpoints that are configured for the OPCUA protocol.

In the following sections, we will present the implementation of the functionalities of CanvAAS2:

• Creating and editing AAS modules from scratch
• Creating Systems designs by combining different AAS modules
• Code generation for AAS modules into Basyx
• Import of AASX modules
• Configuration of the communication protocol

The AASX export functionality is not yet implemented in the v1.0 release.