Yübo Wang

Technology Landscape 4.0

Companies are facing manifold challenges while trying to implement Industrie 4.0, which are in great parts rooted in the complexity of Industrie 4.0 and its associated fields of research. Initiatives have developed abstract reference architectural models to mitigate these challenges and structure Industrie 4.0. The research on hand uses the reference architectural model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0), which is developed by the German Platform Industrie 4.0. This work aims to create a concrete, yet universal, application-oriented model that fosters the widespread of RAMI 4.0 in practice. It supports further research and amendments, and hence, facilitates the implementation of Industrie 4.0 in small and medium-sized enterprises. An information and technological navigation tool is developed for mapping technologies in RAMI 4.0. Finally, the foundation for a subsequent inclusion of IT security in RAMI 4.0 is laid.

Holistic Scenarios by Using Platform Technologies for Small Batch-Sized Production

Industrie 4.0 defines a new level of organization and management in the entire value chain for the product lifecycle. The basic technologies include cyber-physical systems, embedded systems and Internet technologies. The reflected benefits are more communicable, flexible, and networkable products and production environments. The purpose of the paper is to present holistic scenarios by using platform technologies. The combination of defining scenarios by using data flow diagram with business process modeling notation is used to establish Human-Machine-Collaboration for small batch-sized production. Cornerstones of this approach are boundary-crossing models in the distributed Industrie 4.0 infrastructure from product development into the production environment.

IT-Security Concept Cornerstones in Industrie 4.0

The majority of enterprises identified the potential and the benefits of Industrie 4.0. However, many companies consider Industrie 4.0 more as a security challenge than an opportunity to optimize their processes or an enabler for new business models. Therefore effective security methods to protect the Industrie 4.0 systems and its associated values and assets are needed. Based on the connectivity infrastructure in the shopfloor, the diversity in the corporate landscape of the global mechanical and plant engineering ultimately causes that every enterprise has to develop its own way of production IT security management. The purpose of the followed sections is to analyze the challenges of IT security in Industrie 4.0 and to identify and combine the requirements from manufacturing automation, mechanical engineering, process engineering and the properties of cyber-physical systems with well-established core elements of IT security descriptions. A process model, which consists of a data model and an algorithm as its core element is developed to consider the challenges and to cope with the requirements. As a prototypical implementation security measures and their properties are presented in a technological Industrie 4.0 Toolbox IT-Security, as the result of the whole process and data model.

Potential and Influence of Industrie 4.0 in Oral Implantology Products and Their Production for Patient, Dentist and Dental Laboratory

The purpose of this paper is to identify on the one hand the influence of Industrie 4.0 to the horizontal value creation in the process chain patient-dentist and the process chain dentist-dental laboratory. On the other hand, the effect of Industrie 4.0 to the vertical value creation in the manufacturing process chain of implants, abutments and crowns in a dental laboratory are explained. In addition, the potential of the Industrie 4.0 in CAx-pre-processing and post-processing of each process chain is presented. Furthermore, the Human-Machine-Interaction in the modeling of oral implantology products and their individual medical service functional upgrade to a Smart Health Product is discussed [1]. Based on these results, new business models between the correlation patient, dentist and dental laboratory are generated.