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Roadmap to Smart Manufacturing for Developing Countries
Published in Shwetank Avikal, Amit Raj Singh, Mangey Ram, Sustainability in Industry 4.0, 2021
Vaibhav S. Narwane, Rakesh D. Raut, Balkrishna Eknath Narkhede
Even though initially, I40 targets the manufacturing sector, its concept and vision can be extended to other sectors such as agriculture, service, food, healthcare, etc. Vertical, horizontal, and system integration offers an all-inclusive view of knowledge, tools, skills, and technologies for system autonomy: horizontal integration through service, planning, and procurement management; vertical integration through product, process, equipment, organization, and people (Pérez-Lara et al., 2019). This integration helps to improve the performance of service sector organizations. According to Geissbauer et al. (2016), the benefits of I40 are more in developing nations of the Asia-Pacific region. Advancements in mobile cloud computing and IoT have made an impact on the healthcare sector in terms of patient convenience, cost, and service availability (Roy et al., 2019). Improvements in big data for cyber-physical system (CPS) improve system efficiency, security, and scalability (Xu and Duan, 2019).
Using Transactional-Level Models in an SoC Design Flow
Published in Louis Scheffer, Luciano Lavagno, Grant Martin, EDA for IC System Design, Verification, and Testing, 2018
Alain Clouard, Frank Ghenassia, Laurent Maillet-Contoz, Jean-Philippe Strassen
System integration is the assembly of different system components to create a properly functioning system. A stepwise process with successive partial integrations throughout the development of the hardware and software components is adopted. TLM models participate in such an integration process in the following manner: Software is executed on the reference model of the hardware IP for a common understanding of the hardware specification.Hardware RTL implementation is checked against the reference model used by software developers.Earlier integration of hardware components can take place by mixing TLM and RTL views of IPs instead of waiting for the release of all RTL blocks.Software can be executed on a partial RTL platform by using TLM models for IPs whose RTL code is not available yet. It enables earlier hardware/software integration.
FlexRay Communication Technology
Published in Richard Zurawski, Networked Embedded Systems, 2017
Roman Nossal-Tueyeni, Dietmar Millinger
This communication determinism is the solution for the problem of interdependencies between components, which is a major issue and cost factor in today’s automotive distributed systems. Since any change in one component can change the behavior of the entire system, integration and testing is of utmost importance in order to ensure the needed system reliability. At the same time, testing is extremely difficult and expensive. A deterministic communication system significantly reduces this integration and test effort as it guarantees that the cross-influence is completely under control of the application and not introduced by the communication system. This property is often referred to as “composability,” meaning that each component of a system can be tested in isolation and integration of these components does not have any side effects.
Identification, assessment, and quantification of new risks for Logistics 4.0
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2022
System integration involves the connection of various subsystems or components into a single larger integrated system (Mitleton-Kelly 2003; Perego, Perotti, and Mangiaracina 2011). The paradigm of Industry 4.0 is characterised by three dimensions of integration: (a) horizontal integration across the entire value creation network; (b) vertical integration and networked manufacturing systems and (c) end-to-end engineering across the entire product life cycle (Vaidya, Ambad, and Bhosle 2018). It is focused on value maximisation by providing an integrated and holistic set of management tools focused on the interaction between entities of the value chain. It enhances the performance of logistics through efficient supplier management, information transfer, order information and call centre management.
A research agenda on systems approaches to infrastructure
Published in Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, 2020
Jennifer Whyte, Ana Mijic, Rupert J. Myers, Panagiotis Angeloudis, Michel-Alexandre Cardin, Marc E. J. Stettler, Washington Ochieng
Systems integration is the process of making constituent parts of an engineered system work together (Whyte 2016; Whyte and Davies 2020), where this system includes physical components, services and knowledge. Traditionally it has been considered within the project, as the systems architecture is partitioned into sub-assemblies and components, and then these, and the interfaces between them, are tested (both verified, to ensure they meet regulations, specifications and requirements; and validated, to ensure they meet stakeholder needs). Considering projects as interventions in infrastructure (Grafius, Kim, and Whyte 2017; Whyte, Fitzgerald, et al. 2019) suggests understanding of associated complexity and uncertainty within and across project boundaries, spanning the technological, environmental and social issues.
Systems integration theory and fundamentals
Published in Safety and Reliability, 2020
Mohammad Rajabalinejad, Leo van Dongen, Merishna Ramtahalsing
System integration, or integration at the system level, refers to the integration of components, elements or subsystems, or human interactions in order to realise a system that accomplishes the system objectives. Therefore, it here refers to technical systems integration. In other words, the focus of system integration is mainly on the integration of components, subsystem internal/external interfaces and human interactions. For example, Figure 3 shows the technical integration of the railway system, involving the integration of the train, rail and catenary subsystems with the other subsystems.