Industry 4.0

Question 1

Industrial Data Space (IDS)
Basic principles of

Digital Sovereignity
Federal Data Management
Data Economy
Wealth Creation
Easy Data Linking 
Safe Data Supply 
Data Governance

Answer 1

Digital Sovereignity
Data can be – if required – managed peripherally by the data owner.
Federal Data Management
Data is a commodity and can be subdivided into private and public data commodities.

Data Economy
Industrial Data Space enables smart services as well as data-centered digital business models.
Wealth Creation
Linked data concepts and common vocabulary simplify data integration between IDS participants.

Easy Data Linking
Members of IDS, data sources and data services are certified against colectively established rules. Legitimate Expectation
Data exchange is safe along the data wealth-creating chain, from the data creation until their use. Safe Data Supply Chain
Data management processes and IDS members rights/duties are set jointly by the operators

Question 2

Industry 4.0 is a “smart factory”

Answer 2

use of cyber-enabled systems in monitoring physical processes, creating virtual copies of the physical environment, and making decisions in industries. The information can be used by humans in facilitating various industrial processes or actions for improved productivity.

Question 3

Industry 4.0 key principles

Interoperability

Transparency in information

Technical assistance

Decentralization of decisions

Answer 3

Interoperability
This refers to the ability of machinery and related components to connect and communicate with people through the Internet.

Transparency in information
This principle requires that information systems should be able to create virtual copies of the physical world by configuration of digital data into sensor data. For this to be achieved, raw sensor data has to be aggregated with compatible context data.

Technical assistance
This concerns the ability of the systems to support humans through comprehensive aggregation and visualization of information for better decision-making and quick solutions to problems. Technical assistance also focuses on the ability of cyber-enabled systems to physically support human resources by handling various tasks, which are considered time-consuming, harmful and exhausting to people.

Decentralization of decisions
This principle refers to the ability of cyber-enabled systems to independently come up with decisions and carry out their dedicated functions. This can only be changed in the event of interferences or conflicts with the intended goals, which may require some tasks to be handled at other levels. The concept is characterized by greater customization of products in flexible manufacturing environments, as in industries dealing with mass production.

Question 4

IDS Data key for business

Answer 4

1. product innovation
2. service innovation
3. Process Innovation
4. Organizational innovation