Model-based development and application generation for the batch process industry

In the context of required flexibility for production systems due to dynamic product life cycles and market demands, the application of semantic technologies is regarded as a beneficial approach. This paper describes the development workflow of an ontology-based model for representing concepts of the batch process domain towards the automated generation of an application in an industrial supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. The presented approach shows the feasibility of model-based development for industrial practice by integrating the ontology in an SQL database, which is accessible for the utilized industrial SCADA software.