A Survey: Microservices Architecture in Advanced Manufacturing Systems Plug u0026 Produce is an important part of the 4th industrial revolution (I4.0) that focuses on product development and production scenarios, demanding rapid adaptation to customer needs, with minimum effort, and no business interruption. Achieving this requires the use of flexible and agile automation systems. Microservices Architecture can be an opportunity to bring such flexibility and agility to industrial automation systems. Since Microservices Architecture is a new paradigm in serviceoriented systems, an indepth analysis from the industrial automation perspective is necessary in order to figure out why and how this new architecture could be helpful to build flexible automation systems. In this paper we first clearly describe and characterize the Microservices Architecture. We next discuss an existing paradox in microservice granularity, and suggest an approach to solve the mentioned paradox. Then we compare this new approach to the Service Oriented Architecture, highlight the key (dis)advantages of utilizing Microservice Architecture in building flexible automation systems that fits in 4th industrial revolution needs, and describe the challenges to its future adoption.

IoT and Microservice Architecture for Multimobility in a Smart City In this paper, we will illustrate how microservice architectures can be adopted to build Internet of Things services for multimobility in a smart city. Traditional centralized architectures are built as monolithic solutions, which lack the flexibility required to deal with heterogeneous devices efficiently. Microservice architectures implement small features bounded within a running process; independent microservices can be deployed separately in a distributed system. We have proposed a draft of architecture for generalpurpose Internet of Things applications. Thanks to the choice of the microservice paradigm, the architecture is capable of interfacing with a wide range of heterogeneous IoT devices while implementing scalability by design. On this basis, a web application has been developed bearing in mind a set of real case scenarios mobility services for citizens multimobility in a smart city.