Modelling Capabilities for Functional Configuration of Part Feeding Equipment

Abstract

This paper introduces a configuration framework for automatic configuration of production systems. The proposed framework consists of three key aspects; 1) functional configuration, 2) interface configuration and 3) behavioral configuration, that together offers the ability to automatically identify production resources, and aggregate them to form a production system. The main focus of this work is to model functional capabilities to facilitate automatic suggestion of part feeding resources, and exemplifies different approaches to model part feeding capabilities.