A Review on Programming Approaches for Dynamic Industrial Cyber Physical Systems

Industrial automation and control systems are going through a big change, adopting the modern computing and Internet technologies to give completely new agility and adaptability properties to production plants, transport and energy systems and infrastructures, often referred to as Industrial Cyber Physical Systems (ICPS). In manufacturing, they are expected to cope with product customizations, changes in the market or supply chain, or failures. However, the wide adoption of ICPS requires rethinking approaches to their design and programming. This article reviews the state of the art of programming approaches for ICPS and analyses their capabilities, in the hope that it will help researchers to identify potential opportunities of future development of software solutions for ICPS.