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Interoperability in Industrie 4.0

Introduction

The project "Interoperable Interfaces for Intelligent Production", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), aims at developing cross-industry OPC UA standards and making them known. The Forschungskuratorium Maschinenbau e.V. (FKM) is carrying out this project and is supported by the VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V.).

In the course of the project, this catalog of relevant interoperability efforts (e.g., technologies, concepts, organizations) related to Industrie 4.0 as well as their network of relationships is being developed.

The complete catalog can be saved offline as PDF here.

Instruction

The catalog can be used in three ways

  • in the top right-hand corner there is a full-text search mask.
  • In the menu on the left, the descriptions of the individual interoperability approaches can be selected directly.
  • For selected entries, the respective relationships are displayed as a network. The graphical representations can be found under #Entry points.

Entry points

The entry points make it possible to find an overview of a specific aspect. The following entry points are currently defined:

  1. OPC UA
  2. AAS
  3. Organizations
  4. Geographical Focus

OPC UA

AAS

Organizations

In this view all organizations are listed. In some cases the relations between them are listed as well.

Geographical Focus

The following view shows the geographical areas in which the individual concepts are driven.

Methodology

To create this catalog, different interoperability efforts in Industrie 4.0 have been gathered by the Beirat Interoperabilität - Ökosystem I4.0 of the VDMA in the form of short profiles. The most important efforts have been selected by the Beirat Interoperabilität and categorized by the VDMA and ISW. Along with the categorization, the short descriptions of the individual catalog elements have been extended. After a further review by both the Beirat Interoperabilität and experts in the respective Industrie 4.0 efforts, the catalog elements are presented in the catalog you are reading now.

The term is queried on Google Trends for the last 5 years. The regions in which the term is most frequently searched for are considered. The classification is made according to continents with the options Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. If a more precise option than the query of a "general search term" is possible, this option is taken, e.g. if google trends offers a topic for the term.