The increasing integration of the Internet of Everything into the industrial value chain has built the foundation for the next industrial revolution called Industrie 4.0. Although Industrie 4.0 is currently a top priority for many companies, research centers, and universities, a generally accepted understanding of the term does not exist. As a result, discussing the topic on an academic level is difficult, and so is implementing Industrie 4.0 scenarios. Based on a quantitative text analysis and a qualitative literature review, the paper identifies design principles of Industrie 4.0. Taking into account these principles, academics may be enabled to further investigate on the topic, while practitioners may find assistance in identifying appropriate scenarios. A case study illustrates how the identified design principles support practitioners in identifying Industrie 4.0 scenarios.

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Design Principles for Industrie 4.0 Scenarios

Industry 4.0: A Survey on Technologies, Applications and Open Research Issues

Rapid advances in industrialisation and informatisation methods have spurred tremendous progress in developing the next generation of manufacturing technology. Today, we are on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In 2013, amongst one of 10 ‘Future Projects’ identified by the German government as part of its High-Tech Strategy 2020 Action Plan, the Industry 4.0 project is considered to be a major endeavour for Germany to establish itself as a leader of integrated industry. In 2014, China’s State Council unveiled their ten-year national plan, Made-in-China 2025, which was designed to transform China from the world’s workshop into a world manufacturing power. Made-in-China 2025 is an initiative to comprehensively upgrade China’s industry including the manufacturing sector. In Industry 4.0 and Made-in-China 2025, many applications require a combination of recently emerging new technologies, which is giving rise to the emergence of Industry 4.0. Such technologies originate from different disciplines ...

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Industry 4.0

Dem Markt fur mobile Kommunikation werden hohe Wachstumsraten fur die kommenden Jahre vorausgesagt. Der Markt fur mobile Endgerate wird derzeit vor allem von der Verbreitung internetfahiger Mobiltelefone vorangetrieben. Bis zum Jahr 2003 wird beispielsweise erwartet, dass ein Drittel der europaischen Bevolkerung ein WAP-fahiges Handy besitzt und benutzt. Dieses erlaubt dann den Zugang zu beliebigen Anwendungen bzw. Diensten im Netz. Laut Durlacher Research wird die Zahl der Mobilfunkteilnehmer in Westeuropa von fast 90 Millionen Ende 1998 auf uber 237 Millionen Ende 2003 ansteigen (vgl. Muller-Veerse 1999) Im Folgenden werden die Mobile Value Chain und mobile Technologien naher betrachtet.

Das Mobile Unternehmen

The carbon footprint is an environment indicator, which is of special interest not only for assessing and optimizing production and logistic processes, but also for addressing a growing interest of customers in the ecologic characteristics of a product. Its computation and processing are tightly bound to research challenges, such as the capturing and exploration of item-level data, and the aggregation of item-level process instances. In this article, we report about a demonstration system, which aims at illustrating visitors of a technology fair how these challenges can be addressed by means of item-level records created from input obtained via smart labels. In a scenario spanning several steps of a product's lifecycle, the system enables the creation and exploitation of these records. During each stage, the system combines item-level data with more general information related, e.g., to the product class and the underlying process model - with the ultimate goal not only to support the assessment of an item’s carbon footprint, but also its reduction for future products of the same class.

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In Europa breitet sich eine Motivationswelle zur Eroberung elektronischer Markte aus. Unter Verwendung von Schlagwortern wie „Electronic Commerce“oder „Electronic Business“wird die Einfuhrung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien vorangetrieben.

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Today, managers are facing a fast-moving business environment with changing customer needs and expectations, fast-evolving technologies and product lifecycles, strong globalization effects, accelerating innovation, and increasing digitization of products. Within this environment, managers need to ensure long-term business success for their company. In a growing market, it is important to respond by investing in innovative new products, sales channels, and marketing strategies. Organizations operating in a tough economic environment, on the other hand, need to focus on optimizing costs, timescales, and product resources in order to boost efficiency.

Thomas Feld

Papers

Industry 4.0

Das Mobile Unternehmen

Demonstrating the Application of Digital Product Memories in a Carbon Footprint Scenario

Virtuelle Marktplätze: Die dritte Dimension des Online-Handels

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