Enhancing resiliency in production facilities through cyber physical systems

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) in production offer the chance of enhancing the resiliency of factories as depicted by the three main pillars adaptability, robustness and efficiency. Simultaneously, they will have a large impact on the way production facilities are organized and structured. This chapter thus reviews the basic concept of CPS in factories and their three dedicated specificities systems for production, transportation and assistance as well as the future role of production planning systems in an integrated, digitalized production environment. In the second part, two examples covering Cyber Physical Production and Assistance Systems will be provided to familiarize the reader with the industrial application of these concepts in actual facilities. An energy-oriented manufacturing planning and control system as well as the application of smart glasses in an industrial assembly task are used for demonstration. In addition to a depiction of the structure and composition of CPS in these show cases, their improvements compared to the current state-of-the-art will be quantified to highlight the underlying potentials for resiliency.