The Workshop's theme

The theme of the SOHOMA’2020 Workshop is “Manufacturing as a Service – virtualizing and encapsulating manufacturing resources and controls into cloud networked services”.

“Manufacturing as a Service” or shortly MaaS stands for new models of service-oriented, knowledge-based smart manufacturing systems optimized and reality-aware, with high efficiency and low energy consumption that deliver value to customer and manufacturer via Big data analytics, Internet of Things communications, Machine learning and Digital twins embedded in Cyber-Physical System frameworks. From product design to after-sales services, MaaS relies on the servitization of manufacturing operations that can be integrated into different manufacturing cloud services such as Design as a Service (DaaS), Predict as a Service (PraaS) or Maintain as a service (MAaaS).

This 10th SOHOMA edition is devoted to emerging Industry 4.0-based Smart Factories implemented through Cyber-Physical Systems with all the resources integrated, sharing information and coordinating their behaviours among each other, adapting to reality and organizing at runtime to optimize at different levels (planning, production, maintenance, energy consumption, etc).

With the advances in the Industrial Internet of Things, Edge- and Fog Computing, the growing amount of data extracted from the shop floor motivates the research for new Information, Control and Communication technologies (IC2T) such as digital twin, big data analysis, cloud services and artificial intelligence, applied for agility, reality awareness, optimization, and a shift from diagnosis to prognosis in controlling the consumption and cost of energy in manufacturing.

The scientific event will draw on research developed in the last years in the scientific community SOHOMA as well as from other sources. The main research lines are:

• IT and OT Modelling techniques (Digital Twin, Object-Orientation, Agents, Service Oriented Architectures, ...) for automation systems
• Holonic architectures and Multi-agent frameworks for smart, safe and sustainable industrial systems
• Intelligent products, orders and systems in industry
• Service orientation of control and management in the manufacturing value chain
• Issues of agility, flexibility, safety, resilience and reconfigurability in industrial systems with new service-oriented IC²T: cloud, Web, SOA
• Machine learning techniques to predict behaviours, evolutions, unexpected events and to detect anomalies in manufacturing processes and resources
• Cyber-Physical Production Systems and Industrial IoT implementations for Industry 4.0

The application space for these new developments is very broad. SOHOMA’2020 will address all aspects of industrial systems management, such as:

• Machine learning techniques to predict behaviours, evolutions, unexpected events and to detect anomalies in manufacturing processes and resources
• Cyber-Physical Production Systems and Industrial IoT for Industry 4.0
• Control and management of production, supply chain, logistics, transportation, after-sales services, a.o.
• Industrial and after-sale services and maintenance operations
• Management and control of energy production and distribution

The implementing space for these application classes includes the new digital transformation frameworks and technologies, as the one advocated by “Industry4.0” or “Industry of the future” concepts. Digital manufacturing represents the digitalization of supply, production (with planning) and delivery operations of a networked company, and uses intensively digital models and ontologies.

Examples are not limited to these areas. Papers discussing new application areas and the resulting new developments at the interface of information technology and automation are especially welcome. All contributions must indicate alignment with the Workshop’s theme.

The purpose of the SOHOMA’2020 international workshop is to shed light on the multiple issues above, associated with safe, smart and sustainable products, processes and industrial systems.