Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Frank Buschmann

Wendelin Feiten

Jörg Neidig

Vladimir Zahorcak

Michael Pirker

Kai Wurm

Gisbert Lawitzky

Lars Gelbke

Johannes Weiss

Dominik Oeh

Kiryl Batsiukov

Kilian Telschig

Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a computer-implemented method for automated configuration of a joining computing device into a computing system. The method may include: using a device management service to listen for messages from joining devices; connecting via secure shell and factory default credentials to a discovered device; configuring the joining device based on device descriptions, including: downloading a description from the joining device; creating new security certificates which enable secure communication; closing the default ssh services and triggering a reboot; reading the description from the joining device; using the description to identify the set of connectors required for the container runtime environment to be deployed; and receiving into and executing containerized software in a deployed container runtime environment on the joining computer device.

Computer implemented method and distributed computing infrastructure for automated plug and play configuration

Provided is a production module for the execution of at least one production function upon or for a product, wherein the production function is configured for interaction with a further production function of a further production module in a production operation, and the production module is executable as a self-similar fractal module, having an execution unit for the autonomous execution of the at least one production function, having a processor unit for the delivery of a production service for accessing the at least one production function, a self-description service for the delivery and communication of self-descriptive information incorporating properties of the production function for the further production module, and for the reception of further self-descriptive information incorporating properties of the further production function, a coupling service for the determination of a cooperation zone.

Production module

Provided is a production module for processing or handling a product in a production system, which production module has a product detection module for reading in product parameters associated to the product, and an interaction module for assigning an adjacent production module to a transfer port. Furthermore, a local assignment table is provided, in which non-adjacent conveying objectives in the production system are in each case assigned to one of the transfer ports. A balancing module serves for iterative reading of first assignment information of a corresponding assignment table of a first adjacent production module, for iterative formation of the local assignment table with the aid of the read-in first assignment information, and for iterative transfer of second assignment information of the local assignment table to a second adjacent production module.

Production module, production system, and method for operating a production module

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