ABSTRACT
The adoption of Cyber Physical System (CPS) technologies at European level is constrained by a still emerging value chain and by the challenging transformation of manufacturing processes and business ecosystems that their deployment requires. Multi-sided platforms have demonstrated to play the pivotal role of providing the environments and the technological infrastructures able to match make the needs of manifold user insisting on them. The automation industry is an interdisciplinary field, which involves a wide variety of tasks, product portfolios, technologies, standards and services, serving different sectors, with distinct requirements and needs. In the existing value chains, the automation solution to be purchased is still selected merely considering its hardware elements. The choice between the different automation solution brands is based on several parameters including integrability, flexibility, scalability and reliability. Controllers have a relevant impact on the realization of an automation solution.
