Abstract.Particular emphasis was placed on the dynamic lease-based binding of services which on the one hand provides flexible and loose coupling of system components but on the other hand has to ensure reliable communication and cooperation. The guidelines were applied to the experimental implementation of a manufacturing cell control system using a real-time version of the Java Runtime Environment. The Device Profi.le for Web Services (DPWS) was used as basic infrastructure technology. Test and evaluation were performed under distributed simulation of technical processes and devices