^* Vladimir Dimitrieski. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia. A BSTRACT Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business information systems. Driven by the Internet of Things or the high-tech strategy Industry 4.0, an efficient integration plays in this domain an increasing role. Despite powerful technologies, the integration is a challenging and labor-intensive task. To walk with the development, machines and information systems need flexible and powerful integration mechanisms with self-configuring and self-adapting features. The ideal conception would be a plug & produce mechanism, which follows the USB plug & play principle. In this paper, we address this problem and present a novel approach for a structured, automated and reusable integration of information systems and machines. The approach is realized as a framework which allows the development of transformations between different data schemas. Accordingly, the framework is positioned between machine and application layer. The framework consists of a declarative mapping language with a graphical notation and an intelligent solution for connecting different systems. In this contribution, we give an overview of the framework components and demonstrate the approach in a practical use case. KEYWORDS Integration, Mapping, Transformation, Automation 1. INTRODUCTION Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business application systems. According to emerged visions of Internet of Things (Mukhopadhyay 2014) or Industry 4.0 (Dujin et al. 2014), continuous integration is an essential requirement for the implementation of common business processes. The realization of this guiding principle requires a horizontal and vertical integrated information flow (Portugal)

^* Vladimir Dimitrieski. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia. A BSTRACT Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business information systems. Driven by the Internet of Things or the high-tech strategy Industry 4.0, an efficient integration plays in this domain an increasing role. Despite powerful technologies, the integration is a challenging and labor-intensive task. To walk with the development, machines and information systems need flexible and powerful integration mechanisms with self-configuring and self-adapting features. The ideal conception would be a plug & produce mechanism, which follows the USB plug & play principle. In this paper, we address this problem and present a novel approach for a structured, automated and reusable integration of information systems and machines. The approach is realized as a framework which allows the development of transformations between different data schemas. Accordingly, the framework is positioned between machine and application layer. The framework consists of a declarative mapping language with a graphical notation and an intelligent solution for connecting different systems. In this contribution, we give an overview of the framework components and demonstrate the approach in a practical use case. KEYWORDS Integration, Mapping, Transformation, Automation 1. INTRODUCTION Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business application systems. According to emerged visions of Internet of Things (Mukhopadhyay 2014) or Industry 4.0 (Dujin et al. 2014), continuous integration is an essential requirement for the implementation of common business processes. The realization of this guiding principle requires a horizontal and vertical integrated information flow (Portugal)

^* Vladimir Dimitrieski. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia. A BSTRACT Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business information systems. Driven by the Internet of Things or the high-tech strategy Industry 4.0, an efficient integration plays in this domain an increasing role. Despite powerful technologies, the integration is a challenging and labor-intensive task. To walk with the development, machines and information systems need flexible and powerful integration mechanisms with self-configuring and self-adapting features. The ideal conception would be a plug & produce mechanism, which follows the USB plug & play principle. In this paper, we address this problem and present a novel approach for a structured, automated and reusable integration of information systems and machines. The approach is realized as a framework which allows the development of transformations between different data schemas. Accordingly, the framework is positioned between machine and application layer. The framework consists of a declarative mapping language with a graphical notation and an intelligent solution for connecting different systems. In this contribution, we give an overview of the framework components and demonstrate the approach in a practical use case. KEYWORDS Integration, Mapping, Transformation, Automation 1. INTRODUCTION Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business application systems. According to emerged visions of Internet of Things (Mukhopadhyay 2014) or Industry 4.0 (Dujin et al. 2014), continuous integration is an essential requirement for the implementation of common business processes. The realization of this guiding principle requires a horizontal and vertical integrated information flow (Portugal)

^* Vladimir Dimitrieski. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia. A BSTRACT Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business information systems. Driven by the Internet of Things or the high-tech strategy Industry 4.0, an efficient integration plays in this domain an increasing role. Despite powerful technologies, the integration is a challenging and labor-intensive task. To walk with the development, machines and information systems need flexible and powerful integration mechanisms with self-configuring and self-adapting features. The ideal conception would be a plug & produce mechanism, which follows the USB plug & play principle. In this paper, we address this problem and present a novel approach for a structured, automated and reusable integration of information systems and machines. The approach is realized as a framework which allows the development of transformations between different data schemas. Accordingly, the framework is positioned between machine and application layer. The framework consists of a declarative mapping language with a graphical notation and an intelligent solution for connecting different systems. In this contribution, we give an overview of the framework components and demonstrate the approach in a practical use case. KEYWORDS Integration, Mapping, Transformation, Automation 1. INTRODUCTION Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business application systems. According to emerged visions of Internet of Things (Mukhopadhyay 2014) or Industry 4.0 (Dujin et al. 2014), continuous integration is an essential requirement for the implementation of common business processes. The realization of this guiding principle requires a horizontal and vertical integrated information flow (Portugal)

^* Vladimir Dimitrieski. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia. A BSTRACT Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business information systems. Driven by the Internet of Things or the high-tech strategy Industry 4.0, an efficient integration plays in this domain an increasing role. Despite powerful technologies, the integration is a challenging and labor-intensive task. To walk with the development, machines and information systems need flexible and powerful integration mechanisms with self-configuring and self-adapting features. The ideal conception would be a plug & produce mechanism, which follows the USB plug & play principle. In this paper, we address this problem and present a novel approach for a structured, automated and reusable integration of information systems and machines. The approach is realized as a framework which allows the development of transformations between different data schemas. Accordingly, the framework is positioned between machine and application layer. The framework consists of a declarative mapping language with a graphical notation and an intelligent solution for connecting different systems. In this contribution, we give an overview of the framework components and demonstrate the approach in a practical use case. KEYWORDS Integration, Mapping, Transformation, Automation 1. INTRODUCTION Increasing automation in the manufacturing industry requires a comprehensive integration of machines and business application systems. According to emerged visions of Internet of Things (Mukhopadhyay 2014) or Industry 4.0 (Dujin et al. 2014), continuous integration is an essential requirement for the implementation of common business processes. The realization of this guiding principle requires a horizontal and vertical integrated information flow (Portugal)