Conceptual Image of Cyber-Physical Intralogistics Systems

This image depicts the concept of Cyber-Physical Intralogistics Systems (CPIS), a subset of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS). In a CPIS physical assets like robots, transfer stations, products, and charging stations as well as logical assets like simulations, data bases and fleet management software exist alongside each other in their respective layer. Each of these assets has a virtual representation in the cyber layer. The virtual representation of each asset is an instance of an asset type defined in the descriptive layer. The communication between the assets is taking place on the cyber layer using information on each other’s interfaces retrieved from the descriptive layer. This structure leads to a flexible, modular, and easy to expand system for intralogistics.