VDI/VDE 2653 Blatt 5:2026-05

In modern automation systems, flexibility requirements (adaptability, scalability and integration capability) are becoming increasingly important. In many cases, however, it is still unclear how the desired flexibility can be achieved in the development of an automation system and how the resulting complex processes and behaviours can be mastered. With the help of agents, it is possible to systematically design the necessary flexibility of automation systems. This standard is primarily aimed at companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sector that want to use objective factors to determine the extent to which their existing systems are already suitable for the implementation of agent systems and where specific optimisation potential can be exploited in order to create the conditions for the technical implementation of agent systems. The metric values determined can serve as a basis for evaluating the flexibility of systems and for a company-wide assessment in order to quantify the company’s own maturity.

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