AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS FOR PROTOTYPING OF INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS IN MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION

Abstract

Many new challenges have arisen in manufacturing automation such as the integration of cyber-physical system technologies, distributed development and ever greater expectations of quality, flexibility, and customer-specific aspects requirements. There is a demand for new paradigms of development to meet the global competition. On the center of this discus-sion is the development of software for such applications and the existent development models. This article discusses innovative concepts for the development of software for advanced manufacturing systems, namely the use of agile development methods. Moreover, an experiment, where a prototype of a complete automated manufacture plant is constructed. This experiment was conducted by students in a simulation of a real-life demand. The obtained results, as well as the qualitative evaluation of the ex-periment, will be commented at the end of this work.