Supporting the Resilience of Communication Systems in Manufacturing by Providing Extrinsic Resilience from Production System Entities
摘要
As manufacturing digitalizes, reliable industrial communication systems are essential for managing increased data volumes and ensuring secure, efficient production. These systems must maintain high productivity and economic performance despite fluctuating latency, bandwidth, and stability. Resilient design supports system functionality during information exchange failures. Resilience can be intrinsic, achieved through flexible network architectures, or extrinsic, achieved by the production system’s adaptability to the communication environment. Data-flexible production systems may influence production schedules and performance indicators while adapting to the communication environment, altering data output and hotspot distribution. Quantitative evaluation of this impact is necessary for better decision-making. As a result of the collaborative project on resilient communication systems for secure and flexible production systems (RePro) extrinsic resilience is defined. Resilience mechanisms and their impact on energy and resource efficiency, quality, safety, productivity, and cost in production systems are discussed and exemplarily two extrinsic resilience mechanisms are selected to demonstrate the framework.