Hamied Nabizada, Felix Gehlhoff (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg) · Rainer Drath (Pforzheim University) · Alexander Fay (Ruhr University Bochum)
Presented at
2026 IEEE 31st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Västerås, Sweden, 8 to 11 September 2026
Type
Conference paper, IEEE ETFA 2026, 4 pages
Full text
Read on IEEE Xplore (doi:10.1109/ETFA68377.2026.11725146)
Preprint on arXiv (2606.03691)
Library, example and feedback function
Summary
The Formalized Process Description (FPD) according to VDI/VDE 3682 is a standardized graphical notation for processes, but it has had no tool-independent, machine-readable exchange format. The paper presents an AutomationML domain library based on CAEX 3.0 that covers the FPD language elements, their attributes, connection semantics and diagram layout information.
The library is organised into semantic roles, connection types, attribute libraries for the information model and for diagram interchange, and instantiation templates. The authors discuss the design decisions and their alternatives, and demonstrate the library with a bidirectional mapping tool between a web-based FPD modeler and AutomationML. The library is proposed as a candidate for Part 3 of VDI/VDE 3682.
Keywords: FPD, AML, CAEX, domain library, VDI 3682, process modeling
Summary written by AutomationML e.V.; the authors‘ abstract is available on IEEE Xplore. Listed as part of AutomationML at Academic Conferences 2026.
How to Cite
Hamied Nabizada, Rainer Drath, Felix Gehlhoff, Alexander Fay: An AutomationML Domain Library for the Formalized Process Description. In: 2026 IEEE 31st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Västerås, Sweden, 2026, pp. 1-4. doi: 10.1109/ETFA68377.2026.11725146
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Nabizada2026AutomationML,
author = {Hamied Nabizada and Rainer Drath and Felix Gehlhoff and Alexander Fay},
title = {An AutomationML Domain Library for the Formalized Process Description},
booktitle = {2026 IEEE 31st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)},
address = {Västerås, Sweden},
publisher = {IEEE},
year = {2026},
pages = {1--4},
doi = {10.1109/ETFA68377.2026.11725146}
}