Intent-based Management for Industrial Automation

An intent is the formal specification of all expectations including requirements, goals, and constraints given to a technical system. Intent-based management is considered as one of the key enablers of autonomous network management and service assurance mechanisms. However, the use of intents in industrial networks to achieve end-to-end automation has not been addressed yet. The intent handling operations in an industrial setting require particular vocabulary and semantics to provide specialized support for industrial requirements. Therefore, this paper proposes to extend the intent common model introduced by the TM Forum and defines an intent extension model to simplify the management of the industrial networks supporting enterprises. Besides, the vision towards achieving an integrated intent-based automation for industries is introduced.