Smart Industry 1/2018

Business process control with smartphone or tablet (Komsa)
IDS in practice
■ How to create a really smart factory
Steel producer Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe has provided the first use case for
IDS with an information system for truck logistics. The aim is to optimize the
loading and unloading times of trucks and adapt them flexibly according to
transport routes and traffic disruptions. The company handles around 20,000
trucks per month so, with just 30 minutes available to load and unload each
truck, any delay in arrival can quickly throw the entire schedule into disarray.
Technology partner Komsa and Thyssenkrupp have developed an end-to-end
combination of connected devices between the truck drivers and the weigh
gates at the entrance to the loading bays. The aim is to automate rescheduling
of truck arrivals based on reliable online data, by using real-time management
of time slots and dynamically estimated arrival times Messaging using GS1 EDI
XML allows instant and comprehensive status change notification.
IDS supports interaction between humans and machines (Festo)
Control and automation firm Festo and bearings maker Schaeffler have
developed an integrated equipment platform using Object Linking and Embedding
(OLE) for process control unified architecture (OPC-UA) over an IDS secure
channel. The modular service-based concept can be extended to incorporate
semantic technologies or other protocols and provides support for horizontal
integration across value chains. System features include process optimization
based on higher transparency, knowledge creation and documentation based on
data correlation and analytics, and the transfer of new added value to partners.
Salzgitter, a German steel producer, with engineering and electronics company
Bosch have developed an intelligent stock information system called From Ore to
Refrigerator. It merges existing procurement systems to analyze the underlying
supply chain and reveal possibilities of new business models for brokerage of
raw materials and metals to customers. Results: automatic management of
semantic description of steel quality criteria, machine interface for availability,
and greater transparency and faster response times.
vitally important for adoption. The
requirements range from simple access
rights and identity management to
affordable costs. Last but not least,
quality counts. Quality of service must
be ensured and governed by service
level agreements across the IoT and
business networks.
How many instances of IoT platforms
would a company need?
The abundance of IoT platforms with
each vendor of machinery having its
own [architecture] leads to situations
where one factory may have to deal
with several IoT platforms. The producer
doesn’t want this. As the data
owner, the producer wants control
over his own data instead of feeding
his production data into IoT platforms
of vendors. As much as the producer
wants the big picture in real time, he
doesn’t want to engage in complex
integrating projects that connect the
IoT platforms. Therefore, networked
communication is needed that connects
whole ecosystems (supply/
demand/production networks). One
single account from the provider of
choice will give global access across
IoT or Industry 4.0 platforms. With
Regispace (www.regispace.net), we've
successfully implemented core IDS
proposals in a number of industries.
Can you give us a few examples?
Several partners in Luxembourg and the
UK operate Regify platforms for the
health sector. These platforms ensure
full control of data for the data owner,
compliance regarding data privacy and
Unlike the
Internet,
which has a
sophisticated
governance
ecosystem,
the whole
world of
blockchain
is the Wild
West
Kurt Kammerer
CEO of Regify and
founder of Regify Asia
security, and at the same time they
enable networked communication
across the entire health sector.
Regify’s patented and distributed
architecture connects users (from
humans to machines) across instances
of platforms, lets them transact while
respecting access rights that each
owner of data can grant or revoke at
a granular level. Users simply register
with their chosen provider to gain full
access to other users across the data
space providers.
How about standards for secure
data space?
Standardization efforts such as IDS
and other international approaches
are important because they facilitate
cooperation within an industry. To
date, many users consider comprehensive
architecture and data models
as too theoretical for today’s challenges.
Therefore, Regify solutions
work on every digital channel and
every device independently of which
data partners want to exchange,
standardized or unstandardized. Our
European, and especially our Asian,
customers are calling for this.
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