polaris-frontend

Polaris is a Process Orchestration Layer application for controlling process equipment assemblies (PEA) in the context of modular production in process industries. Thus, it follows the VDI/VDE/NAMUR 2658 standards. polaris-frontend is a visualisation for Polaris recipe engine.

Features

polaris-frontend is able to provide several visualisations for orchestrating multiple PEAs:

• Playlist for Recipes
• Recipe View & Control
• Module View & Control
• Service Launcher
• Trend View

Installation and Deployment

Dependencies

All dependencies are installed via NPM

npm install

Starting the development server

Run npm start or ng serve for a development server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Docker

docker run -d -p 8080:80 p2olab/polaris-frontend

Build it and deploy it

ng build --prod
npm run deploy

Usage

To work properly, polaris-frontend needs an backend, which is provided by polaris-backend. Following is an exemplary development setup, which can be used to discover polaris-frontend.

Run polaris-backend testserver

git clone https://github.com/p2o-lab/polaris-backend
cd ./polaris-backend
npm install
npm run-script testserver

Run polaris-backend using docker image

docker pull p2olab/polaris-backend
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 p2olab/polaris-backend

Run polaris-frontend

Clone project, follow the above instructions to install dependencies and start the development server. The test PEA can now added in the module view.