A data model for data gathering from heterogeneous IoT and Industry 4.0 applications

Abstract

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) offers the opportunity to gain a detailed insight into the current production process by means of an increased networking of production plants. This crosslinking makes it possible to record the entire state of a production plant and to trace it within a later analysis. The aim of this analysis is to optimize the monitored production process resulting from analyses of I4.0 value-adding services [1, 2]. Figure 1 schematically visualizes the information flow for such a scenario. Data from the various levels of production are collected, stored in a data storage facility and evaluated by a valueadding service pipeline. The results are integrated back into the production process as optimizations. In this work, first the requirements for such a value-adding service pipeline are determined, which results in a total of five requirements and is abbreviated with R1 to R5. Subsequently, a suitable system architecture from the Big Data area is selected in order to meet the previously established requirements and thus implement a value-adding service pipeline. The requirements R1 - R5 and the system architecture will then flow into a data model for data acquisition and transmission within the shop floor of the production.