vf‐OS IO Toolkit
Víctor Anaya, Néjib Moalla, Ludo Stellingwerff, José Luis Flores, Francisco Fraile · 2018
Virtual factory Operating System (vf-OS) is an Open Operating System for Virtual Factories composed of a kernel, application programming interface, and middleware specifically designed for the factory of the future. Within vf-OS, the IO Toolkit provides tools for on-premises facilitation of access to manufacturing devices and existing business software, while also facilitating the interaction with the rest of the vf-OS infrastructure. The IO Toolkit will provide a containerization solution to run drivers and API connects as microservices in the context of the vf-OS technical architecture. Software developers can thus develop functionalities that interact with any manufacturing asset that is connected to vf-OS via an IO component. A device driver is a kind of IO component that interacts with physical industrial devices to integrate sensors' data and send commands to devices.