Domain-Specific Design of Industrial Automation and Control Systems: The MEDEIA Approach

The aim of this paper is to describe a model-driven design approach for Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS). This approach is characterised by the transformation of domain specific engineering models to a central automation component model and the automatic code generation for varioius automation platforms. A central point of this work is the development and discussion of the domain specific model to automation component model transformation which is discussed in this paper. The work behind this approach is being developed in the MEDEIA project funded by the European Commission in the FP7.