Semantic Industry: Challenges for computerized information processing in Industrie 4.0

Interpretation of the concept Industry 4.0 is complex and depends very much on from which point of view the topic is approached - machinery design or plant engineering, IT or automation technology. It is clear, however, that a defined semantic for all commonly used data is mandatory. The starting point for consideration is the grouping of I40 components that are provider of the data. These components are parts of cyber physical systems, where they offer services in order to create new value chains together with IT oriented services. All services and service contents must be defined semantically unique. Based on the product-process-resource-model (PPR model) and the data model of VDI/VDE 3682 this contribution shows how information on I40 components may be described semantically unambiguous. It is shown how this method of description may be applied to data of I40-services. By application of this method the degree of semantically unique data is increased.