Engineering tool to develop CPPS based on IEC-61499 and OPC UA for oil&gas process

Regarding current Oil&Gas production places, an important challenge is to deal with the increasing complexity of shop floor level data on existing production processes and, beyond that, allowing their possible vertical integration. In order to reach this goal, an integration of smart cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) into the automation production systems could be a solution. In the last decades, the Oil&Gas industry has been changing significantly with the progression of new and particular technologies; However, industrial IoT (IIoT) concepts have not yet been adopted and integrated. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the possible use of a CPPS architecture based on IEC 61499 and OPC UA for vertical integration in production systems to Oil&Gas industries. OPC UA can help industrial companies to integrate into the paradigm of Industry 4.0, allowing remote access to plant information and achieving vertical integration. An integrated development environment (IDE) has been created to easily design applications based on the IEC 61499 that allows Oil&Gas engineers a faster incorporation into this type of technology.