Cyber-physical systems: challenge of the 21st century

Esterle, Lukas; Grosu, Radu

doi:10.1007/s00502-016-0426-6

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“…Cyber-physical systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are further digital drivers of transformation in the model outlined here. CPS are systems with embedded software, which have sensors and actuators [25], evaluate and store recorded data, communicate with each other and in global networks, use worldwide available data and services, and have human-machine interfaces [26]. CPS can be used to interlink data from production logistics, capacity planning and quality assurance (machines maintenance) in real time.…”

Section: A Conceptual Model Of Procurement 40mentioning

confidence: 99%

Supplier Relationship Management Goes Digital: First Empirical Insights

Fröhlich¹,

Steinbiß²

2020

ujm

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In an increasingly competitive environment, suppliers are now seen as an important source of innovation. Long-term partnerships enable companies to access the knowledge of suppliers to optimize their business. "Procurement 4.0" is one of the concepts that come to the fore when talking about digitalization of business processes. The major aim of this research is to discuss a conceptual model of "Procurement 4.0" and its potential to rethink the management of supplier relationships, which will be one of the main future tasks of procurement. The paper is based on a factual-analytical research approach that serves to continuously specify and supplement the elements of the frame of reference: Two challenging concepts, "Procurement 4.0" and Supplier Relationship Management, are merged to contribute to the fact that purchasing is indispensable as an "interface" within a global supply chain to reap the benefits of digitization. The factors that prove to be obstacles to digital supplier relationship management along the digital supplier journey-e.g. lack of guidelines, approaches or tools and a lack of understanding of the importance of long-term relationships-are reflected within the identified technologies of digital transformation. A comprehensive analysis of the given situation within digital supplier relationship management in Germany is provided. The most important digital supplier touchpoints are discussed in order to develop a traditional supplier relationship towards a digital relationship management. Thus, this paper succeeds in illustrating how the innovative concept of a supplier journey can be implemented in practice to counteract the future, entrepreneurial challenges.

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Section: A Conceptual Model Of Procurement 40mentioning

confidence: 99%

Supplier Relationship Management Goes Digital: First Empirical Insights

Fröhlich¹,

Steinbiß²

2020

ujm

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“…when more RTIs, more facilities and more users are introduced, (iii) Extendibility, to include the addition of new RTI types and future technological changes, i.e. integration of additional RTI sensors [45] and (iv) Security, any CPS should provide resource control and provide protection from unauthorised disclosure from techniques such as "man-in-the-middle", denial of service and injection of fake data from third parties [44]. The proposed reference architecture, Figure 3, to meet these requirements is a combination of both a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) and the Reference Architecture Model for industry 4.0 (RAMI4.0) [46].…”

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smaRTI—A cyber-physical intelligent container for industry 4.0 manufacturing

Neal

Sharpe

Conway

et al. 2019

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are becoming a significant research focus resulting from advancements in technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Manufacturing and Intelligent Products. Successful deployment of CPSs has the potential to provide a step change in manufacturing efficiency, flexibility and production yield as envisaged by the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0 paradigm. The realisation of intelligent products and services is in the provisioning of predictive, risk preventative and high-performance manufacturing systems. As part of these manufacturing systems, Returnable Transit Items (RTIs) play a critical role in provisioning robust and efficient means of component (e.g. Work in Progress and finished items) protection and logistics. The research outlined in this paper details how a Returnable Transit Item (RTI) can become an integral part of the Industrie 4.0 vision as an intelligent container that can interact with components, machines and other cyber-physical manufacturing services. This paper discusses a CPS reference architecture for the integration of intelligent containers and presents a hardware and software proof of concept solution suitable for industrial deployments. The paper concludes with feasibility studies utilising the intelligent container for context determination services including the identification of intelligent components and monitoring of logistical handling process (i.e. the detection of collisions, lifting and turns).

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“…R2 Environments, where robots work, are often open-ended with very few assumptions [12]. There is a physical danger involved while working with robotic systems, especially during their testing .…”

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SmartTS: A Component-Based and Model-Driven Approach to Software Testing in Robotic Software Ecosystem

Nagrath¹,

Schlegel²

2021

IJACSA

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Validating the behaviour of commercial off-theshelf components and of interactions between them is a complex, and often a manual task. Treated like any other software product, a software component for a robot system is often tested only by the component developer. Test sets and results are often not available to the system builder, who may need to verify functional and non-functional claims made by the component. Availability of test records is key in establishing compliance and thus selection of the most suitable components for system composition. To provide empirically verifiable test records consistent with a component's claims would greatly improve the overall safety and dependability of robotic software systems in open-ended environments. Additionally, a test and validation suite for a system built from the model package of that system empirically codifies its behavioural claims. In this paper, we present the "SmartTS methodology": A component-based and model-driven approach to generate modelbound test-suites for software components and systems. SmartTS methodology and tooling are not restricted to the robotics domain. The core contribution of SmartTS is support for test and validation suites derived from the model packages of components and systems. The test-suites in SmartTS are tightly bound to an application domain's data and service models as defined in the RobMoSys (EU H2020 project) compliant SmartMDSD toolchain. SmartTS does not break component encapsulation for system builders while providing them complete access to the way that component is tested and simulated.

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Cyber-physical systems: challenge of the 21st century

Cited by 40 publications

References 19 publications

Supplier Relationship Management Goes Digital: First Empirical Insights

Supplier Relationship Management Goes Digital: First Empirical Insights

smaRTI—A cyber-physical intelligent container for industry 4.0 manufacturing

SmartTS: A Component-Based and Model-Driven Approach to Software Testing in Robotic Software Ecosystem

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