A method to evaluate the openness of automation tools for increased interoperability

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 6844-6849

  Fay, Alexander ^a   Biffl, Stefan ^b   Winkler, Dietmar ^b   Drath, Rainer ^c   Barth, Mike ^c  

^a HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

automation engineering tools; benchmark; interoperability; openness

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; ENGINEERING EFFICIENCY; ENGINEERING PROCESS; EVALUATION RESULTS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; MEASUREMENT METHODS; OPENNESS;

AUTOMATION; BENCHMARKING; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; INTEROPERABILITY;

TOOLS;

EID: 84893519572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2013.6700266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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