DocumentCode :
3017391
Title :
A survey of distributed intelligence in automation in European industry, research and market
Author :
Terzic, Ivanka ; Zoitl, Alois ; Favre, Bernard ; Strasser, Thomas
Author_Institution :
Autom. & Control Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna
fYear :
2008
fDate :
15-18 Sept. 2008
Firstpage :
221
Lastpage :
228
Abstract :
Over the last decade the automation industry has experienced a huge growth worldwide but the major automation markets are still in Europe and the USA with the highest absolute growth as some recently published studies show. In order to better determine the future technologies the European automation industry attempt to adopt in the next years, we conduced 2005 a trend study with the name "Trend Study for the Identification of Application Domains for Distributed Automation". Main propose of this survey was the identification of applications, key product and services requirements which can provide a basis for our future research issues in our core technology the distributed intelligent automation. The study has shown that the European automation industry has a big interest in distributed intelligence in automation technology particularly in the modular systems and machines applications and logistic system applications. But for the success of this technology following requirements should be fulfilled: (1) it has to lead to a major customer cost benefit and (2) advanced engineering tools are necessary to hide the complexity of distributed systems. In general this segment of European automation market waits for a sign from a global player.
Keywords :
distributed control; factory automation; European automation industry; European automation market; application domains; automation technology; distributed automation; distributed intelligence; distributed intelligent automation; distributed systems; logistic system applications; Automatic control; Centralized control; Control systems; Europe; Industrial control; Intelligent networks; Machine intelligence; Machinery production industries; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing industries;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2008. ETFA 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1505-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1506-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638396
Filename :
4638396
Link To Document :
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