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56.5 Conclusions and Outlook
Internet technologies and applications have become an integral part of everyday life. The overall
acceptance is one of the driving forces for the adoption of such technologies in the automation domain.
Application scenarios for this “Industrial Internet” are manifold and span the complete range of tasks
in vertical integration of automation systems, as well as along the life cycle. However, the appropriate
technologies need to be selected and adopted; they cannot always simply be used.
As stated above, a common solution for selecting the right technology or technology combination
is not possible. A systematic approach, however, is possible—using an evaluation of features against a
list of use-case depending constraints. This approach takes into account the functions to perform, their
implementation—the devices and system components—and the communication aspects depending on
the components’ locations.
Besides the technical features, the TCO needs to be considered. Not only are the installation costs
relevant, but also maintenance costs and efforts for acquiring the appropriate know-how. Another
important aspect is the maturity of the technologies, since the short technology development cycles are
in contrast to life cycle durations in industrial automation.
Application domain-related adoption of Internet technologies leads to standardization. This is problematic,
since the influence of automation-related standardization bodies like ISO or IEC is rather limited in
Internet standardization. Compared with the IT domain, industrial application is a small domain.
It is obvious that the actual developments of Internet and Web technologies, for example, Web 2.0,
will find their applications in the industry domain, extending the role of Industrial Internet.
Acronyms
AJAX
ASP
CGI
CORBA
CSS
DCOM
DOM
DTD
EDD
EDS
ERP
FDCML
FTP
GSDML
HTML
HTTP
HTTPS
IMAP
IP
JVM
MES
MIB
NNTP
OPC
OPC-UA
POP
Asynchronous Javascript and XML
Active Server Pages
Common Gateway Interface
Common Object Request Broker Architectures
Cascading Style Sheets
Distributed Component Object Model
Document Object Model
Document Type Definition
Electronic Device Description
Electronic Data Sheet
Enterprise Resource Planning
Field Device Configuration Markup Language
File Transfer Protocol
Generic Station Description Markup Language
HyperText Markup Language
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTP-Secure
Internet Message Access Protocol
Internet Protocol
Java Virtual Machine
Manufacturing Execution Systems
Management Information Base
Network News Transfer Protocol
OLE for Process Control
OPC Unified Architecture
Post Office Protocol
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