The importance of Industry 4.0 has increased significantly in recent years due to new technologies, particularly in the field of automation. A key aspect of Industry 4.0 is the horizontal and vertical integration of value chains within a company and across company boundaries. This requires the modeling of actors, their behavior and interaction as well as their implementation in a runtime environment. Current technical concepts of the Industry 4.0 platform offer no or only a very limited opportunity to develop this. The focus of S-BPM is on subjects that represent actors or systems that are loosely coupled, can act in parallel and autonomously from one another and communicate by means of messages.

The aim of the work is therefore to extend subject orientation to Industrie 4.0. The reference architecture model (RAMI4.0), in particular the six layers of the architecture axis and the concept of the Industrie 4.0 component, are examined in more detail. The relationship between RAMI4.0 and S-BPM as well as subjects and I4.0 components is described in detail. Specifically, a new type of subject, the so-called I4.0 subject, is introduced as a link to active I4.0 components. In addition, the design and implementation of the developed prototype is presented based on the use case of order-driven production. The prototype shows the connection of RAMI4.0 with a semantic extension of S-BPM.

Carina Forstenlechner

o.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Christian Stary