The manufacturing industry has to deal with a growing number of product variants, mass customized products and accelerated time to market as well as shorter product lifecycles. Many tasks in manufacturing are related to assembly processes. In order to master the ever changing market demands, especially also in the assembly domain, new innovative approaches are required. The PISA project tackles this problem by combining the human flexibility, intelligence and skills with the advantages of sophisticated technical systems. The subproject 4 of the PISA project tackles the problems of the reconfigurability and reusability of assembly equipment. In this paper, a framework for distributed industrial automation and control systems that will be applied in this subproject will be discussed. An example of a reconfigurable robot system will be introduced and presented to demonstrate the concept.