Arezzo project

This project is cited in "Arezzo: an emulator for the bench4star initiative" in Proceedings of Joint Conference on Mechanical, Design Engineering
& Advanced Manufacturing, Toulouse, France, June 18th–20th, 2014 (Berger T., Deneux D., Bonte T., Cocquebert E., Trentesaux D.)

The AIP-Primeca flexible manufacturing cell is used for research and learning activities and is located on the campus of the University of Valenciennes (France), 

This cell is built with industrial components and comprises two system types: - a monorail conveying system with 15 shuttles (RFID tagged) and 11 transfer blocks (TB, association of 2 transfer gates) permitting a flexible routing, – 7 workstations (WS) to perform operations (e.g., robotic assembly, quality inspection…) on the product being manufactured. 

Each product is on a dedicated shuttle and moves from a workstation to the next needed one. 

The Arezzo components model consists in defining the components permitting to model the shop floor of the AIP-Primeca cell and the component architecture defining the connections between some instances of these components. 

The implementation of the emulator model consists in instantiating each component, the physical and/or informational links between them, executing behaviors’components when it is needed, realizing the interface with the high level control and maintaining up-to-date the state of the emulated plant. This is done through a software platform.  

If you are interested to download the code in order to test it, give us your feedback, contribute, ..., code available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/arezzo/