Design of an IoPT approach to create a cocktail robot station with robotic arm: components, interfaces and control
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Nataliia Klievtsova
MSc Nataliia Klievtsova studied Economical Cybernetics at the Odesa National University (Ukraine) from 2010 to 2015 and received there bachelor and master degrees. In 2016 started master program in Business Informatics at the University of Vienna and graduated at 2022. Since 2020 has been working in the Austrian Center for Digital Production as a member of The Process-based Manufacturing Orchestration area.and Marcel Fuschlberger
BSc Marcel Fuschlberger received a bachelors degree in Mechatronics and Robotics at the University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Wien in 2018. Starting the same year, he began working for the Austrian Center for Digital Production as a research scientist, focusing on design and construction of automatization systems using collaborative robots. Since 2022, he is studying for a masters degree in Robotics Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Wien.
Abstract
Successful and profitable companies in the 21st century have to integrate and adapt modern technologies to reach productivity and sustainability goals. While large enterprises have the resources (human, knowledge, and technology) to incorporate automation hardware and the required computational means to support automation, for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) finding the necessary resources is much more difficult. Even though benefits from such modifications are obvious (i.e., gain new clients, improve current process performance or break into new market), SMEs often lack the human resources and knowledge to implement automation. With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), devices, sensors and platforms are becoming more affordable and available for companies and businesses, that are not connected with IT technologies, industrial sector, etc. In order to simplify automation for SMEs, simple and standardized integration procedures and best practice examples are important. In this paper we propose the concept and design of a smart bar system that is based on the Internet of Processes and Things (IoPT) concept which is able to prepare and serve drinks to clients based on smart features.
About the authors

MSc Nataliia Klievtsova studied Economical Cybernetics at the Odesa National University (Ukraine) from 2010 to 2015 and received there bachelor and master degrees. In 2016 started master program in Business Informatics at the University of Vienna and graduated at 2022. Since 2020 has been working in the Austrian Center for Digital Production as a member of The Process-based Manufacturing Orchestration area.

BSc Marcel Fuschlberger received a bachelors degree in Mechatronics and Robotics at the University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Wien in 2018. Starting the same year, he began working for the Austrian Center for Digital Production as a research scientist, focusing on design and construction of automatization systems using collaborative robots. Since 2022, he is studying for a masters degree in Robotics Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Wien.
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Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
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Research funding: This work has been partially supported and funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) via the Austrian Competence Center for Digital Production (CDP) under the contract number 881843.
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- IoPT: internet of processes and things
- Research Articles
- An IoT architecture to integrate different machine tools into a compound OPC UA interface
- Design of an IoPT approach to create a cocktail robot station with robotic arm: components, interfaces and control
- Case Report
- IoPT integration on the factory floor: a case study
- Research Article
- A framework for AI-based self-adaptive cyber-physical process systems
- Case Report
- IoT-enriched event log generation and quality analytics: a case study