Outcomes, Insights and Best Practices from IIC Testbeds: Smart Factory Web Testbed
as the area of geospatial data, e.g., to
consider environmental aspects as part of a
smart factory. The Open Geospatial
Consortium has standards in this area, but
they are not yet fully integrated into the
standards
typically
used
in
the
manufacturing automation domains, i.e.,
OPC UA and AutomationML. Another gap
lies in the information models available for
IIoT. While there is progress in the
companion standards being worked on for
OPC UA, the development process is
ongoing.
describe reference architectures for service
architectures.
More work is also needed in the
specification of the Asset Administration
Shell from PI4.0, a digital representation of
an asset by which modular and
interoperable digital twins may be built
according to the Industrie 4.0 concepts. The
Smart Factory Web Testbed hopes to
provide support to this standardization
work. Additionally, semantic descriptions of
asset capabilities are an important aspect of
standardization still needed in the industry,
but there is further work to be done in this
area.
A standard of Open Geospatial Consortium
called SensorThings API is becoming popular
in the IIoT domain: The Smart Factory Web
Testbed uses this standard to easily
integrate additional sources of data,
particularly sensor data, into a Factory Web.
The oneM2M standard is being used by KETI,
though it is not central for the overall Smart
Factory Web concept. This standard can be
added into the Smart Factory Web if devices
within factories support oneM2m. There are
standards used from the PI4.0 area which
T ESTBED R ESULTS
There are four phases in the Smart Factory
Web Testbed:
Phase 1: Geospatial Mapping and
Factory Information
Phase 2: Plug & Work
Phase 3: Data & Service Integration
Phase 4: Collaboration
Figure 3: Timeline of the Smart Factory Web Testbed
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