Message Queuing for Industrial Automation

By Ambar Prajapati

The industry has evolved enormously since the formal introduction of AMQP in 2006. The ISO and IEC approved OASIS AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol came into existence in May 2014. Many practical implementations of message broker based solutions are now available. This article discusses the offerings of AMQP and provides details of the RabbitMq as its implementation.

Research Questions

There was a growing need for a standard middleware protocol with the existence of several proprietary systems. The research question is — which protocol fills that void and give the most compelling example of its industrial implementation.

This review paper attempts to demystify the crucial role of middleware in seamless dataflow for industrial automation. It discusses AMQP as the significant backbone for inter-process data flow among diverse, distributed, and heterogeneous systems. It discusses RabbitMq as a successful technology that implements AMQP.

Research Gaps

The earlier researches do not capture the recent advances in AMQP, such as its reorganization as an OASIS member. The previous studies also do not provide insight into many middleware challenges and the industry response to them.