Indus­tri­al bur­ners often have com­pact con­trol­lers that are curr­ent­ly most­ly con­trol­led pro­prie­ta­ri­ly . Due to dif­fi­cult-to-access pro­cess data and manu­fac­tu­rer- and tech­no­lo­gy-spe­ci­fic map­pings of the con­trol inter­face, they stand in the way of digi­ta­liza­ti­on and ser­vice-based pro­duc­tion. An important chall­enge and thus a reason for the situa­ti­on is safe­ty-rela­ted cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on of the bur­ners with the con­trol sys­tem. The con­ver­ti­bi­li­ty of the bur­ner con­trol sys­tem under the­se boun­da­ry con­di­ti­ons is the­r­e­fo­re a cur­rent problem.

Asset Admi­nis­tra­ti­on Shells (AAS) and Con­trol Com­pon­ents (CC) are cen­tral con­cepts of the trans­for­ma­ti­on sup­port of the Basis Sys­tem Indus­try 4.0 (BaSys). Howe­ver, the con­cept of Con­trol Com­pon­ents for the homo­ge­niza­ti­on of con­trol sys­tems has so far only been imple­men­ted in demons­tra­tors. In fact, no BaSys Con­trol Com­pon­ents exist in indus­try yet. A refe­rence pro­ject is miss­ing to trans­fer the con­cepts and demons­tra­tors into a pre-pro­duc­tion pro­to­ty­pe. Such a refe­rence imple­men­ta­ti­on of the Con­trol Com­po­nent must go hand in hand with an I4.0‑compliant repre­sen­ta­ti­on of all infor­ma­ti­on through a Asset Admi­nis­tra­ti­on Shell. For this pur­po­se, BaSys can pro­vi­de tem­pla­tes for cor­re­spon­ding sub­mo­dels and software.

The BaSys-com­pli­ant deve­lo­p­ment of a Con­trol Com­po­nent with asso­cia­ted Asset Admi­nis­tra­ti­on Shell using the exam­p­le of a bur­ner con­trol sys­tem under the chall­enge of cer­ti­fia­bi­li­ty repres­ents such a refe­rence pro­ject. Thus the way of an indus­tri­al com­po­nent to the BaSys com­po­nent from the manu­fac­tu­rer over the sup­pli­er to the user can be shown also for SMEs, so that BaSys can find appli­ca­ti­on in the indus­try. At the same time, BaSys con­cepts are eva­lua­ted and expan­ded whe­re nee­ded. In par­ti­cu­lar, the cer­ti­fia­bi­li­ty of Con­trol Com­pon­ents in con­trol sys­tems will be investigated.

For the users of the bur­ners, the appli­ca­ti­on of BaSys4Brenner fin­dings crea­tes an infra­struc­tu­ral basis for digi­ta­liza­ti­on. In the future, for exam­p­le, ser­vices and func­tion­a­li­ties such as moni­to­ring, dia­gno­stics, avai­la­bi­li­ty, main­ten­an­ce pre­dic­tions or advan­ced opti­miza­ti­on tools (AI, machi­ne lear­ning) can access the stan­dar­di­zed or seman­ti­cal­ly anno­ta­ted data dis­c­lo­sed by BaSys. In addi­ti­on, the­re is the pos­si­bi­li­ty of pie­cewise inte­gra­ti­on of exis­ting plants (retro­fit) and easy repla­ce­ment of bur­ners (plug & pro­du­ce, recon­fi­gu­ra­ti­on). Ulti­m­ate­ly, the cross-manu­fac­tu­rer and cross-appli­ca­ti­on inter­ope­ra­bi­li­ty pro­vi­ded by the gene­ra­li­zed Con­trol Com­pon­ents in com­bi­na­ti­on with the Asset Admi­nis­tra­ti­on Shells is a major step towards trans­for­ma­ti­on-enab­led production.