METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING SERVICE-ORIENTED AUTOMATION COMPONENTS OF A MANUFACTURING FACILITY INTO A FLEXIBLE IT CORPORATE ARCHITECTURE

摘要

The invention relates to a method for orchestrating and integrating services offered by service-oriented automation components of a manufacturing facility from one manufacturing level to a higher level such as the corporate, business and/or production level. In order to configure flexible production factories in the form of an orchestration process and to specify elements, it is provided that the service-oriented automation components are coupled to the higher level by way of an orchestration middleware and that the services offered by the service-oriented automation components are integrated into the higher level using a vector function and a layout that is based on the orchestration of service-oriented automation components.