Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in Industrial Systems

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is intended as a design framework for realizing rapid and low-cost system development and improving total system quality. Using Web services standards and technologies, SOA is mainly applied to business information systems and is rapidly becoming a standard approach for enterprise information systems. SOA has been successfully applied to industrial systems such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), order entry system, etc. However, when applied to the low layer management and control systems, Web services face significant challenges because of particular requirements. Several issues need to be addressed when applying the SOA paradigm to real-time system, which include response time, support of event-driven, asynchronous parallel applications, complicated human interface support, reliability, etc. In this talk, Professor Komoda will briefly explain what SOA is, followed by detailed discussion on several issues that arise when SOA is applied to industrial systems. Finally, examples of industrial systems (business system, command and control systems), applied SOA will be introduced. A full paper from Professor Komoda is also included in the proceedings of this conference.