Service-oriented architectures (SOA) in general:

Significance
• Relevance to Factory Automation


SOA concepts
• What is a service?
• What are service providers, service requestors and service brokers?



SOA for Industrial Devices

• Industrial devices vs. desktop computers
• Devices Profile for Web Services
• Service Orchestration and Choreography


Service Orchestration and Choreography

Semantic Web Services: SOA and Ontologies