Requirements for the software implementation of the Industrie 4.0 system for creating network enterprises

The digital transformation of enterprises based on the digital technologies leads to a radical change in business models and the formation of new organizational and production structures, which include network en-terprises. Network enterprises as dynamically formed production structures in the business ecosystem that unite many enterprises participating in joint economic activity; in modern conditions they are based on digital platforms. Nowadays, an approach to building digital platforms is actively developing within the framework of the Industrie 4.0. The subject of the study is to determine the requirements for software implementa-tion of Industrie 4.0 systems (i4.0 systems) based on digital platforms using multi-agent technologies and an ontological approach. As a research method, the authors propose to use the method of decomposing the i4.0 system into platform software components and software administrative shells related to managing and functioning of net-work enterprise resources (assets) – i4.0 components. The reference architectural model of the Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0) is chosen as the basis for building the architecture of the i4.0 system. It is proposed to use an ontological approach in order to implement multi-agent interaction of i4.0 components within the framework of building the value-added chain of a network enterprise. The main results of the study are the formulated requirements for the software implementation of the i4.0 system with regard to the i4.0 platform software components formation and the software administrative shells of the i4.0 components at the levels of the RAMI architecture. As a software mechanism for the interaction of i4.0 components the paper proposes an algorithm for the i4.0-components interaction using a domain ontology. The software implementation of the formulated requirements for constructing the i4.0 system architecture will increase the flexibility and efficiency of creating and functioning of value-added chains of network enterprises in the dynamically developing business ecosystem of industrial manufacturing of products and services.