Flexible Implementation of IPS2 through a Service-based Automation Approach

Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS2) are characterized through the customer individual configuration of product and service shares to fulfill customer needs. Thus, the ability to react on changing customer requirements is mandatory. There are common approaches which focus on the early stage of the IPS2 development, thereby the implementation phase appears untended. In this article an approach for the flexible implementation of IPS2 is presented, which considers the research of service-oriented architecture (SOA). Furthermore the prototypical realization in the area of micro production is described. The results described in this paper allow IPS2 providers to react on changing requirements by flexible arranging of functionality in terms of services and IPS2 network partners.