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The document discusses Industry 4.0 and the fourth industrial revolution brought about by modern information technologies enabling the Internet of Things. It describes how the German government is supporting industry and research to implement these changes. It outlines the SmartFactoryKL project by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence which demonstrates core aspects of Industry 4.0, including cyber-physical production systems that will revolutionize factories through features like smart, networked objects and convertible production systems. The project aims to create new levels of productivity and value through self-managing, knowledge-based production systems enabled by technologies like the Internet of Things.
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- 1. 25 3/2012 marketsgermany about us INDUSTRY 4.0 GATHERS SPEED M odern information and communi- cations technologies (ICT) like smartphones, the mobile internet and cloud computing have made the In- ternet of Things vision predicted for more than two decades a reality of eve- ryday life. The arrival of these technolo- gies in the industrial environment al- lows the manufacturing industry to significantly increase productivity, qual- ity, and flexibility; ushering in the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution. The federal government is supporting both German industry and the domestic re- search landscape implement these changes as part of the “Industry 4.0” project. “Industry 4.0” began to take off just around the same time as the German Re- search Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) was officially unveiling the SmartFactoryKL system demonstration project at this year’s Hannover Messe. Googling “industry” and “4.0” around six months ago would have brought a handful of hits, today the information available has grown considerably. With the SmartFactoryKL system demon- stration project, the DFKL is demonstrat- ing, for the very first time, the core as- pects of the 4th industrial revolution. The central element in all of this is the cyber-physical production system (CPPS). Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are distrib- uted, intelligent objects which are con- nected to each other via internet technol- ogies. In the field of production technol- ogy this includes everything from individual process modules and machin- ery to facilities and even individually in- telligent products. CPPS will revolution- ize the factories of the future from top to bottom and comprise the following char- acteristic features: • Smart objects – Expansion of techno- logical devices through decentralized intelligence • Total networking – Communication capabilities of all smart objects within a network • Use of internet standards – Adaptation of existing and proven standards for wired and wireless communications • Convertible, agile production systems – Aggregation of smart objects for broad- ly self-configuring production systems • Vertical network integration – Re- placement of strict hierarchical con- trol architectures with increased verti- cal integration and pervasiveness in network structures • Changing human role – Greater user support through improved and mobile access to production data and systems connected by a user-centric and con- text-adaptive interaction configura- tion. These technological considerations have been actively pursued in the DFKI-Smart FactoryKL project and have already been incorporated into the product and pro- cess development activities of a number of partner companies. Based on these ex- periences, the DFKI’s Industry 4.0 experts play an active role in supporting the im- plementation of the Industry 4.0 project (whether in speaking engagement or in- dustrial project-support capacities) as well as being on hand to answer ques- tions from the media. Fundamental basic technologies are also being developed with prestigious industry representa- tives in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research-promoted SemProM and RES-COM projects. Here, for example, digital product memory is being devel- Smart Partner. Dr. Jochen Schlick of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) outlines a vision for the factory of the future. oped and used in a number of different application scenarios. As the basis for creating new levels of productivity and added value, the fourth industrial revolution includes the devel- opment and commercialization of CPS- based autonomous, self-managing and knowledge-based production systems. The advent of the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services in industrial pro- duction makes further improvements in the implementation of industrial pro- cesses in production, engineering, and supply chain and life cycle management possible which, in their totality, will ush- er in a new age of industrialization: In- dustry 4.0. Dr. Schlick has been deputy head of Research in the DFKI’s Innovative Factory Systems division since 2009. He is also the research coordinator of the SmartFactoryKL technology initiative. Contact: Dr.-Ing. Jochen Schlick Jochen.Schlick@dfki.de Dr. Jochen Schlick - DFKI The SmartFactoryKL in action.