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Increasing System Test Coverage in Production Automation Systems
Sebastian Ulewicz, Birgit Vogel-Heuser
An approach is introduced, which supports a testing technician in the identification of possibly untested behavior of control software of fully integrated automated production syst…
Maintainability and evolvability of control software in machine and plant manufacturing -- An industrial survey
Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Felix Ocker
Automated Production Systems (aPS) have lifetimes of up to 30-50 years, throughout which the desired products change ever more frequently. This requires flexible, reusable control…
Modularity and Architecture of PLC-based Software for Automated Production Systems: An analysis in industrial companies
Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Juliane Fischer, Stefan Feldmann +2
Adaptive and flexible production systems require modular and reusable software especially considering their long term life cycle of up to 50 years. SWMAT4aPS, an approach to measur…
Custom-Tailored Clone Detection for IEC 61131-3 Programming Languages
Kamil Rosiak, Alexander Schlie, Lukas Linsbauer +2
Automated production systems (aPS) are highly customized systems that consist of hardware and software. Such aPS are controlled by a programmable logic controller (PLC), often in a…
Frequency and Impact of Technical Debt Characteristics in Companies Producing Mechatronic Products
Fandi Bi, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Litong Xu
Complexity of products, volatility in global markets, and the increasingly rapid pace of innovations may make it difficult to know how to approach challenging situations in mechatr…