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This chapter discusses a number of challenges to be fulfilled and considered regarding software specification for industrial engineering and control software within manufacturing systems. It does not provide an extensive list of detailed functionalities, but rather discusses generic critical success factors. The common thread is the complex interaction between software development and the techno-socio-economic context in which this activity occurs. The software development needs to produce much more sophisticated artefacts in the future, which requires developers to account for factors that could be ignored in the past. In the future, developers need to widen their view. This chapter describes in which ways they need to enlarge their scope.
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Valckenaers, P. (2004). Challenges of Next Generation Manufacturing Systems. In: Ehrig, H., et al. Integration of Software Specification Techniques for Applications in Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3147. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27863-4_3
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