Outcomes, Insights and Best Practices from IIC Testbeds: Smart Factory Web Testbed
reasonable effort. The new version of the
technical design report will contain best
practices and how to set up the overall
system architecture. It will be a blueprint
comprised of advice on how to accomplish
this integration in a sustainable way.
demonstrate new technologies as
easily as possible.
3) Ensure that there are sufficient
accompanying projects to maintain
synergy, funding and stakeholder
commitment—this will bring the
testbed from concept to reality and
help maintain it over a period of
several years.
E XPERIENCE
The Smart Factory Web Testbed derives
different forms of business value from
participating in the IIC Testbed Program. The
testbed has been able to procure new
projects in the IIoT domain based on the
experiences gained, as well as the marketing
support given by the IIC. Visibility and the
number of clients in major IIC regions—
Europe, North America and Asia—have
noticeably grown. From the perspective of
the IIC member companies, it is hoped that
there will be value for new clients to be able
to apply some of the key technologies from
the testbed more efficiently and with a
higher degree of confidence.
C LOSING
Having been through this testbed process
and coming to the end of Phase 4, the Smart
Factory Web Testbed team finds that they
did not encounter many major surprises in
the technical area, but were surprised by
their findings in the area of marketing. The
level of interest in Smart Factory Web for
various application scenarios involving cross-
facility collaboration is much more prolific
than originally expected. There are many
different ideas and opportunities to
transport these ideas to different
applications, especially where some form of
cross-organization
or
cross-facility
collaboration is needed.
The Smart Factory Web Testbed would offer
three pieces of advice to other testbeds and
companies
considering
an
IIoT
implementation:
The Smart Factory Web Testbed embraces
the spirit of why the IIC offers its testbed
program. The level of effort put into the
Testbed correlates with the high level of
output and discovery, and the Testbed
continues to be a model example of
innovation in the IIoT domain.
1) Follow open standards as far as
possible—this is a prerequisite to the
second piece of advice.
2) Develop a sustainable, robust and
flexible implementation architecture
where one can make adaptations and
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