Architecture and Conceptual Design for IPS2-Execution Systems

Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS2) are a new way of providing customer value and therefore represent globally competitive manufacturing systems. Multiple networked partners are involved in the delivery of the IPS2, i.e. the customer, the IPS2 provider and suppliers. The information provided by the partners and the supplied resources need to be coordinated, controlled and managed by a software system. In this paper, an architecture and a conceptual design for such a system, called IPS2-Execuion System, is presented. For this architecture, the structure of the IPS2 organization, among others, has to be taken into account.