VFF D2.2 Virtual Factory Common Data Model

The Deliverable 2.2 addresses the development of the Reference Model (Pillar I, see also D1.3) that establishes a coherent standard extensible Virtual Factory Data Model (VFDM) for the common representation of factory objects related to production systems, resources, processes and products. The common data model can be considered as the shared meta-language providing a common definition of the data that will be governed by the Virtual Factory Manager - VFM (Pillar II, see D3.1) and used and updated by the VF modules (Pillar III, see D4.1) [1]. The introduction (Chapter 1) of this deliverable presents the definition of the VFDM, its decomposition into macro areas and the adopted implementation approach. The technical standard referenced by the VFDM are briefly described in Chapter 2. The Chapter 3 presents the descriptions of VFDM areas. The main classes, properties and links to technical standards are defined too. Moreover, a graphical representation of the VFDM is shown. The Chapter 4 provides some details regarding the implementation of the VFDM. The Chapter 5 introduces the Test Case developed to show how the VFDM can be used to represent a factory project. Finally, the complete documentation of the VFDM is attached to this deliverable.