DIAMOND Meets AutomationML: From PPR Research Model to Community Tooling

The DIAMOND project developed several technical building blocks for working with AutomationML in software-driven engineering environments. These included reusable data structures, processing functions, and model-handling concepts that supported cross-domain engineering use cases. Product–Process–Resource modeling served as one facilitator within this work, but the resulting software capabilities largely remained within the research context after the project activities themselves.

With growing industrial interest in using AutomationML through modern software interfaces, however, the need for such capabilities to be maintained and developed within the AutomationML community itself has become increasingly apparent. This creates an opportunity to transfer selected DIAMOND results from project-specific implementations into reusable community tooling, while aligning their further development with concrete industrial requirements.

The contribution presents the first steps of this transfer. The focus is on providing reusable software components for Python-based access, model manipulation, validation, serialization, and future application development. A lightweight PPR-oriented editor serves as one demonstrator of how these common capabilities can be consumed by higher-level engineering tools.

The presentation therefore addresses a broader question of research transfer: how can useful software results from research projects evolve into sustainable infrastructure for a standardization community? DIAMOND provides the technical starting point, while emerging industrial needs now guide the transition toward maintained, extensible, and community-oriented AutomationML tooling.