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Digital Industry Concepts for the Composable Enterprise

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Various digital drivers are creating a large number of new products and processes across all industries. Both industries that produce ″information-related″ products or services (e.g. the media) and industries that produce physical products are exposed to these disruptive changes. The following shows how this creates holistic, disruptive business models for companies.

Industry is considered as the first sector, for which there is already an approach for a digitised type of company with the Industry 4.0 concept. This concept is linked to the properties of the composable enterprise and similarities and additions are highlighted. The main processes of logistics, product development and factory control are followed.

IT and management consulting are treated as an example of a service sector. The innovation drivers described in Chapter 9 are systematically followed.

An example from the public sector, universities, is analysed to examine how digitisation affects their research, teaching and administration processes.

All descriptions are illustrated by examples.

The three different sectors and approaches provide the reader with suggestions for their own approach.

Statements that are very specific or refer to specific systems are marked in italics. Readers who are more interested in an overview can skip these parts without losing the content guide.

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    Detailed definitions for I4.0 are diverse and complex. Many extend over half a page of A4 and are very technical in nature. The focus is often solely on factory automation. The following outlines how digitisation affects all the essential functions of an industrial company and leads to new business models with new products and services. The online connection of all industrial objects and the use of internet services is the most important characteristic of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The connection is supported by increasing data transfer standardisation. Data‐driven control is another feature of Industry 4.0.

    The challenges of Industry 4.0 for the German industry are obvious. In contrast to many European countries and the USA, Germany is a strong industrial power and has to be careful not to end up “in the industrial museum” by missing out on digitisation. At least that’s what the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against.

    It is not just people that communicate via the internet, but also “things” like materials, products and machines. Internet conventions (internet protocol, IP for short) are used for communication, with each “thing” being given an IP address. With the IPv6 form, 3.4 times 10 to the power of 38 addresses are available. So address assignment is not a technical hurdle. You will also hear the term “internet of everything” in this context.

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Scheer, AW. (2024). Digital Industry Concepts for the Composable Enterprise. In: The Composable Enterprise: Agile, Flexible, Innovative. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43089-4_10

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