Contemporary manufacturing systems are undergoing a major change promoted by emerging technologies such as Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) or the Internet of Things (IoT). This trend, nowadays widely known by the term “Industry 4.0”, leads to a new kind of automated production. However, the rising number of dynamically interconnected elements in industrial production lines results in such a system being transformed into a complex System of Systems (SoS). Due to the increasing complexity and the challenges accompanied by this change, conventional engineering methods using generic principles reach their limits when developing this type of systems. With varying approaches only trying to find a solution for small-scaled areas of this problem statement, the need for a holistic methodology becomes more and more obvious. Having recognized this issue, one of the most promising approaches has been introduced with the Reference Architecture Model Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0). However, in the current point of view, this domain-specific architecture framework is missing specifications to address all aspects of such a critical infrastructure. Thus, this paper introduces a comprehensive modeling approach utilizing methods applied in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and including domain-specific particularities as well as architectural concepts with the goal to enable mutual engineering of current and future industrial systems. The resulting artifacts, a domain-specific language (DSL), an architecture definition and a development process, are thereby consolidated in a ready to use software framework, whose applicability was evaluated by a real-world case study.

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面向特定领域的方法，使复杂的工业物联网应用程序能够支持基于工具的基于模型的系统工程

现代制造系统正在发生重大变化，这些变化由诸如网络物理系统（CPS）或物联网（IoT）的新兴技术推动。如今，这种趋势被“工业4.0”一词广为人知，导致了一种新型的自动化生产。但是，工业生产线中动态互连元素的数量不断增加，导致这种系统转换为复杂的系统系统（SoS）。由于复杂性的增加和随之而来的挑战，开发此类系统时，使用通用原理的常规工程方法已达到极限。在仅试图找到针对该问题陈述的小范围解决方案的各种方法的情况下，对整体方法的需求变得越来越明显。认识到这个问题之后，参考体系结构模型工业4.0（RAMI 4.0）引入了最有前途的方法之一。但是，从当前的角度来看，此特定于域的体系结构框架缺少规范，无法解决此类关键基础架构的所有方面。因此，本文介绍了一种综合建模方法，该方法利用了基于模型的系统工程（MBSE）中应用的方法，并包括特定领域的特殊性以及体系结构概念，旨在实现当前和未来工业系统的相互工程。由此产生的工件，特定领域语言（DSL），体系结构定义和开发过程，被合并到一个随时可用的软件框架中，其适用性已通过实际案例研究进行了评估。