The Electro-Pneumatic System as a Cyber - Physical System: The Concept

The implementation of the new industrial revolution named - Industry 4.0 depends on a series of new and innovative technological achievements, most of which are applied in manufacturing domain. Progress in the field of information-communication technology (ICT), especially in the field of internet, enabled thedevelopment of the new manufacturing system models through the transformation of traditionally isolated, hierarchical structures into open and distributed networked structures.Our personal view on the conception and evolution of manufacturing systems structures from the traditional manufacturing systems towards advanced manufacturing systems, such as the cyber-physical systems (CPS) in the domain of electro-pneumatic systemsis presentedin this paper.This paper presents the model of the electro-pneumatic system (EPS) in a spirit of the cyber-physical systems. The development of a cyber-physical based EPS model represents an evolution extension of the electro-pneumatic systems from traditional systems into distributed networked systems based on the three key enablers of Industry 4.0: connectivity, digitalization and cybernation.