The manufacturing and production industry will only survive in a more and more globalized word if they react fast and flexible to new market and customer demands. In order to achieve the required flexibility, technically support for reconfiguration both on the machine (physical) and on the control technical (logical) level is necessary. From the technological point of view a shift from central control and rigidly coupled production systems to distributed, modular and cooperating automation components is essential. An important role of such proposed productions systems plays the automation and control concept.
