Papyrus/customizations/manufacturing/aas/toolset

Papyrus For Manufacturing Toolset Architecture

The functional architecture of the toolset is depicted below:

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 BaSyx 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 Papyrus4Manufacturing:

• 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.