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Industrie 4.0 is hitting the market. The e.GO Life – an electric car for the city – is developed in under three years and only € 30M investment
RWTH Campus pairs research and industry partners to pursue innovative ideas and yield cutting-edge products and services to face next-level digitization.
Digital, agile businesses outperform traditional businesses because of lower latencies in the entire reaction chain
acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index: Helping established companies to build the development path to Industrie 4.0
The Maturity Index is offered to the Plattform Industrie 4.0 for transferring the approach to industry and defining Industrie 4.0 performance levels.
An open infrastructure allows testing of new innovative possibilities for the manufacturing industry Industrie 4.0 is hitting the market. The e.GO Life - an electric car for the city - is developed in under three years and only € 50M investment.
Digital shadow enables fast adaption of products and production.
Digital, agile businesses outperform traditional businesses because of lower latencies in the entire reaction chain. The capability of using data and generate knowledge will different digital champions from losers.
The goal of Industrie 4.0 is a learning agile company;a mere technology driven approach is not sufficient.
A successful implementation of Industrie 4.0 in manufacturing companies requires a holistic transformation approach.
There are many reasons why the shift towards a learning, agile company fails.
For a successful implementation, the entire company structure has to be considered. A stepwise approach is required to build the agile enterprise - smart use of data is the critical success factor.
Company development within the structuring forcesis based on an Industrie 4.0 development path.
The four structuring forces illustrate the fundamental Industrie 4.0 development and are captured by key questions.
The Maturity Index is developed by renowned partners from industry and research Overview on strategic goals and derived projects.
Nowadays manufacturing companies are facing many different challenges as they are finding themselves in a dynamic and complex environment. Industrie 4.0 and its principles can help to manage these challenges. For example, companies should follow a principle called continuity of engineering. This continuity enables parallel development and production planning. One important measure to allow a continuity of engineering is the appropriate integration of IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operational Technology) within the company as well as along the whole value chain. Meant is the networking of machines and plant equipment with IT systems. The management of information resources for example allows data based decisions. Therefore, companies need to have a profound knowledge about the relationship between the integration and information processing of information systems.
There is a common understanding that a certain degree of IT and OT integration highly depends on the company’s typology, which we found out can be represented by the company’s business model. Therefore, we developed a methodology to identify the company’s business model and to derive relevant success factors, both based on a workshop-concept. Based on expert interviews, this enabled us to link the business model or company’s typology with the most important information management principles.
Especially in SMEs of the manufacturing industry, data is not sufficiently used to optimize processes. Some companies have implemented lighthouse “Industrie 4.0 projects”, but struggle with a broader approach. We present the results of a survey we performed that underlines that statement. There are approaches in the literature that propose generic architecture frameworks tackling the mentioned challenge. Still, most of them do not include the existing IT architecture of a company and fail to propose a comprehensive solution delivering a real benefit to companies. Therefore, companies cannot easily use them. For that reason, we developed and tested an Industrie 4.0 software platform architecture companies can use as a blueprint for their own implementation. This architecture is presented in this paper as well as the structured VDI 2221 approach we used to develop it.
Assessment of IS Integration Efforts to Implement the Internet of Production Reference Architecture
(2018)
As part of a collaborative network, manufacturing companies are required to be agile and accelerate their decision making. To do so, a high amount of data is available and needs to be utilized. To enable this from a company internal information system perspective, the Internet of Production (IoP) describes a future information system (IS) architecture. Core element of the IoP is a digital platform building the basis for a network of cognitive systems. To implement and continuously further develop the IoP, manufacturing companies need to make architecture-related decisions concerning the accessibility of data, the processing of the data as well as the visualization of the information. The goal of this research is the development of a decision-support methodology to make those decisions, taking under consideration the evaluated IS integration effort. Therefore, this paper describes the allocation of IS functions and identifies the effort drivers for the respective IS integration by analyzing the integration possibilities. Conclusively this approach will be validated in a case study.
Management of information and the IT systems it is stored in becomes a crucial capability for the industry. However, companies are struggling with the management of the various requirements and frequent changes of technology. Thus, IT complexity has become a major challenge for companies. At the same time, especially manufacturing companies are striving to implement Industrie 4.0 concepts. Many of these even have developed an Industrie 4.0 roadmap including various projects to change the company. Companies can develop such roadmaps by applying the Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index that gives a broad view on necessary capabilities for Industrie 4.0.
In our research, we analyzed data sets from over 10 manufacturing companies that have performed an Industrie 4.0 maturity assessment. Our hypothesis was that IT complexity challenges are hindering the implementation of Industrie 4.0 roadmaps significantly. We could prove this hypothesis at least for the companies analyzed and give insights on the specific challenges. Based on our analysis, we conclude our article by giving concrete recommendations on how to tackle IT complexity.
Konzepte und technologische Möglichkeiten, zusammengefasst unter dem Begriff „Industrie A.=“, ermöglichen es produzierenden Unternehmen, zu einer datenbasiert lernenden Organisation zu werden. Grundvoraussetzung dazu ist eine entsprechende IoT-Architektur. In diesem Beitrag wird ein Verfahren vorgestellt, dass die systematische Integration von Funktionen eines Energieinformationssystems in eine IoTArchitektur, dem Internet of Production, erläutert.
The evaluation of the maturity level of the participating companies has provided an initial insight into the degree of implementation and the upcoming challenges of Industrie 4.0 in Mexico. The assessment shows that Mexican companies have built the necessary foundation to start their digital transformation. Challenges now lie in establishing an integrated IT landscape that makes it possible to generate a digital shadow of the entire company. In order to leverage the potential of this technological development, it is necessary to work in parallel on an even more flexible organizational structure and an innovation-promoting Culture.
In order to strategically plan the digital transformation of a manufacturing company, a detailed analysis of the company's maturity level must be carried out. The basic dimensions of such an analysis were presented in the present paper. The Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index offers a framework that identifies approximately 50 individual capabilities required for the systematic implementation of Industrie 4.0 and groups them into the four dimensions discussed in this paper. Only an analysis of a company's key processes at this level of detail can form the basis for a sound investment decision and a roadmap that outlines the steps towards its digital transformation for the upcoming years.