Creating the Architecture of a Manufacturing Framework by Design Patterns

Abstract

The class and interaction structure of object-oriented designs may become fairly complex, and consequently difficult to develop and understand.Design patterns allow to govern this complexity.This paper presents the design process of a domain-specific black-box framework for the control of automated manufacturing systems.The design is performed as a sequence of transformation steps, guided by the use of generative design patterns.Starting out from a domain-specific model.which does not provide a degree of reusability sufficiently high for a framework.the transformation steps increase the reusability until a satisfactory degree is reached.The resulting class and interaction structure allows to create each application of the considered manufacturing subdomain by selecting, configuring and parameterizing of the framework classes.