Building Application Architecture for supporting Industry 4.0
Kondapi V Siva Rama Brahmam
CEO at Jaajitech - Partnering for Digital Transformation in Process Industries, Driving Efficiency, Innovation, and Sustainability.
Digitalisation in Manufacturing Plants open doors to enormous opportunities to improve efficiency, ease of doing, innovate and rediscover the process of manufacturing operations. Industry 4.0 introduces variety of technologies, platforms and applications that help manufacturing industry to achieve more productivity and profitability.
Also, the traditional industrial applications are transforming themselves to meet the evolving requirements of industry. The characteristics of Industrial applications are changing dramatically in the advent of Cloud Computing, IIoT, Smart Phones, Data Lakes and increased connectivity. Following are typical characteristics of industrial software applications,
These applications for Manufacturing Plants are segregated in to several layers as per ISA-95, i.e., Level-0, 1, 2, 3 & 4. Level Zero is the actual process where Level-1 & 2 represent the Sensors and Control Systems respectively. The Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) applications, which are numerous, are presented in Level-3. Following is the typical representation of ISA-95 application levels,
However, MESA International (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association International), developed a model in 2008, by providing enterprise-level strategic initiatives to business operations to plant operations and actual production. Following is the typical MESA model,
As the technology is changing rapidly, and the development of various Industry 4.0 applications and platforms, the industrial application characteristics are changing dramatically, as described above. Industry 4.0 is still evolving, at a faster pace. In this junction, it is important for Manufacturing Industry to build a scalable and futuristic application architecture to accommodate the Industry 4.0 applications in their existing applications framework.
Following application architecture will help, while industry is trying and testing various Industry 4.0 applications like Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, NLP etc.,
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