Challenges of production microservices

Current production systems use monolithic software solutions. This causes a lack of flexibility, scalability and prevents direct communication between network nodes which is fundamental to face challenges of highly personalized mass production. In order to overcome these drawbacks, the introduction of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) more specifically microservices in production are a promising approach. SOA enables developers to distribute applications in a number of small services which communicate via an integration layer e.g. an enterprise service bus. This paper proposes a data-driven approach for creating a SOA, based on microservices in an assembly focused production.