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Due to the networked nature of modern industrial business, repeated information exchange activities are necessary. Unfortunately, information exchange is both laborious and expensive with the current communication media, which causes errors and delays. To increase the efficiency of communication, this study introduces an architecture to exchange information in a digitally processable manner in industrial ecosystems. The architecture builds upon commonly agreed business practices and data formats, and an open consortium and information mediators enable it. Following the architecture, a functional prototype has been implemented for a real industrial scenario. This study has its focus on the technical information of equipment, but the architecture concept can also be applied in financing and logistics. Therefore, the concept has potential to completely reform industrial communication.

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Efficiency of industrial processes and a high quality of the products can be achieved with advanced monitoring and control solutions. In addition, industrial processes often consume large amounts of energy and through their efficiency and use of resources also have a significant environmental impact. For industrial process optimisation it is necessary to integrate distributed data and functionality into plant-wide coordinating level solutions. From an implementation point of view this is challenging due to different communication protocols and messaging structures. In this paper an integration architecture is proposed that decouples control systems using a message bus mediator approach. The mediator acts as a unified point of access that through adapters facilitates integration of existing control systems to advanced plant-wide data-driven and event-driven control. It is demonstrated with a laboratory case presenting two examples applicable to real-life industrial problems.

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