Application Enabler Technology for Factory Automation

Informazioni relative al progetto

AEFTA

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 10070

Data di avvio 1 Giugno 1994

Data di completamento 31 Agosto 1995

Finanziato da

• The ESSI accompanying measure within the framework of the Specific Research and Technological Development programme in the field of Information Technologies, 1990-1994

Costo totale € 290 000,00

Contributo UE € 290 000,00

Coordinato da

Digital Equipment SpA
Italy

Obiettivo

The experiment tests an evolutionary software development process in a typical distributed, heterogeneous, real time monitoring and control system in a factory automation environment.
The key objectives for this new software development process are time to market reduction (fast prototyping) and quality improvement (analysis, documentation).
The experiment will make use of Application Enabler technology.
Application Enablers (AEs) are development environments for easy and fast software production. They are typically Graphical User Interface (GUI) based environments with graphical languages that can express high level logic and provide strong debugging and tuning tools.
AEs can complement the traditional Application Programming Interface (API) approach, accelerating the application development and allowing a more frequent interaction between the final user and the system integrator. This approach will make possible to immediately verify if the implementation meets the original specifications, with expected great benefits in the application quality.

Other objectives of the experiment are the re-use of software components (the exploitation of libraries of reusable classes during the analysis) and the re-use of architectural components with the exploitation of the new concept of patterns (standard architectural modules) during the design. The software re-use concept addresses also the robustness of applications which are made of well tested components.

For the experiment we have selected an Enabling Technology adopting the Object Oriented (OO) modelling technique called G++ using with an integrated prototypic will be generated starting from the current BASEstar Open product.

The results of the experiment could be disseminated both internally to DIGITAL and externally to users.

Campo scientifico

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › control systems
• social sciences › sociology › industrial relations › automation
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software › software development

Programma(i)

• FP3-ESSI 1 - The ESSI accompanying measure within the framework of the Specific Research and Technological Development programme in the field of Information Technologies, 1990-1994

Argomento(i)

• 1 - Accompanying measures for the specific programme of research and technological development in the field of information technologies

Invito a presentare proposte

Data not available

Meccanismo di finanziamento

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinatore

Digital Equipment SpA

• Contributo UE: Nessun dato
• Indirizzo: Piazza Buffoni 3 ; 21013 Gallarate Varese ; Italia
• Costo totale: Nessun dato