COCOP Toolkit enables the interoperability of industrial software systems in a scalable manner. It provides an open-source communication stack for:

• Semantic interoperability thanks to standardized message structures
• Technical interoperability due to a common protocol, AMQP (Advanced Message Queueing Protocol)

The approach eliminates point-to-point connections for an easier software maintenance. Furthermore, AMQP has been designed for high-volume communication, which is paramount in large industrial networks.

Besides the communications stack, the toolkit includes auxiliary tools.

You can find more information here:

• Source code and documentation: https://kannisto.github.io/Cocop-Toolkit/
• Publication about the concept: https://kannisto.org/pubs/kann17
• Publication about the software toolkit: https://kannisto.local/pubs/kann15

My roles in research and development

I had the following responsibilities in the development during 2016-2019:

• The coordination of systems integration for two prototype systems:
  • Plant-wide coordination of copper smelter
  • Online LCA with distillation column
  • (Described in https://kannisto.org/pubs/kann17)
• Software development:
  • Message serializer library for C# and Java
  • Auxiliary tools
    • Message logger application
    • Matlab integrator library
    • AMQP request response helper
  • Publishing of open-source code
• Scientific publishing (e.g., https://kannisto.org/pubs/kann17)

Related items at Kannisto.org

Research project(s): COCOP

Publication(s): Software Toolkit for Development... Plant-wide interoperability and ...