Production planning and control systems - a new software architecture Connectivity in target

Since the rise of production planning and control systems those systems were subject to changes and further development due to new requirements and possibilities. Recently, Industry 4.0 and especially the cloud manufacturing paradigm brought up new requirements as connectivity demands, which are not fulfilled by current realizations of production planning and control systems. To adapt such systems to connectivity requirements, current software architectures have to be revised. Therefore, within this paper a new software architecture for production planning and control systems is introduced providing a basis for data exchange in-between such systems. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B. V.