Towards Flexible, Fault Tolerant Hardware Service Wrappers for the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring Project

McNally, Michael J.; Chaplin, Jack C.; Martinez-Arellano, Giovanna; Ratchev, Svetan

Abstract

The adoption of digital manufacturing in small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector in the UK is low, yet these technologies offer significant promise to boost productivity. Two major causes of this lack of uptake is the high upfront cost of digital technologies, and the skill gap preventing understanding and implementation. This paper describes the development of software wrappers to facilitate the simple and robust use of a range of sensors and data sources. These form part of a common architecture for data acquisition in the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring project. We explain the existing Shoestring demonstrator architecture, and discuss how a'crash-only' microservices architecture would improve fault tolerance and adaptability of the system.

Citation

McNally, M. J., Chaplin, J. C., Martinez-Arellano, G., & Ratchev, S. (2020). Towards Flexible, Fault Tolerant Hardware Service Wrappers for the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring Project. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(3), 72-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.11.065

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Conference Name: IFAC-PapersOnLine
• Acceptance Date: Dec 18, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Dec 18, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 18, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jan 21, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 28, 2021
• Electronic ISSN: 2405-8963
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 72-77
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.11.065
• Keywords: Control and Systems Engineering
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5248966
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896320302263