Industrie 4.0 - Advanced Engineering of Smart Products and Smart Production

Industrie 4.0 is a strategic approach for integrating advanced control systems with internet technology enabling communication between people, products and complex systems. The key approach is to equip future products and production systems with embedded systems as a basis for smart sensor and smart actuators for enabling communication and intelligent operation control. These so-called Cyber-Physical- Systems challenge design and development processes and require appropriate engineering approaches. Within this contribution the state–of-the-art for Industrie 4.0 is being presented, key use cases are reported and an approach for establishing Industrie 4.0 in industry is presented. In this context, a fundamental issue is to understand the role of integrated safety, security, privacy and knowledge protection