Distributed repository to support the development of manufacturing applications

Current manufacturing applications demand the design of more and more complex, safe and trustworthy control systems which exhibit a high degree of flexibility and reutilization. The present work deals with the use of Web Services and databases to support the design and development of manufacturing systems, with special emphasis on incorporating reuse. This approach has been proposed in the context of a EDI_RECON project aimed to generate a development environment for industrial control systems that support the development cycle of distributed, complex and reconfigurable applications. The validation of such an IDE will be performed on a manufacturing cell.