Patterns for the Industrial Internet / Industrie 4.0

Abstract

Internet technologies have conquered industry domains. Devices on the shop floor are getting connectivity to the Internet. Industrial application of such devices provide the basis for Cyber Physical Production Systems (CPPS) or the so called Industrial Internet of Things (IioT). Sensor data or control commands can be interchanged with remote servers or cloud systems which host applications for further data processing like business analytics, reporting, visualization or process control. This paper introduces four patterns dealing with challenges occurring when collecting data from shop floor machines and devices to enable Internet based data processing.