European Project funded under the 7th Framework Program - Objective ICT-2007.3.3: Embedded Systems Design.
The level of automation and system complexity in factories and plants increases steadily which results in difficult and less-productive system engineering.
Therefore, the main target of the MEDEIA project was to radically improve the development productivity of embedded control systems for the European industrial automation sector. The project results reduced their system design time by 25%, which have been reached by the following objectives: formal framework for model-driven component-based development of embedded control; easy understandable modeling method applicable for domain experts; integrated modeling of diagnostics; integrated simulation and verification of systems design; automatic, embedded platform specific code-generation for the deployment of control software to heterogeneous automation hardware; proof–of-concept demonstration on real-world applications by project partners in the application domain of robotics, manufacturing and power generation. The European industrial automation can use the MEDEIA results. The project is applicable for this sector and it supports them with a powerful method to design and maintain long operational installations as well as automation solutions with rapidly changing demands. To ensure a wide usage of the project results it was planned to standardize the MEDEIA method and to provide an open source design tool.