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40 Industrie 4.0 Enable manufacturing equipment for Industrie 4.0 In Industrie 4.0, intelligent plant components, machinery and equipment and IT systems are connected with each other. Every component of the factory is aware of the relevant partners and their ‘characteristics’. As a matter of fact, there are various heterogeneous software systems on every level of the factory today, most of which have proprietary interfaces, which have to be adjusted or re-programmed manually to account for every change. They are thus cost-intensive and error-prone. IOSB’s efforts are aimed at ensuring PLUG and WORK compliance in the shopfloor-relat- ed software components, consistently across the various levels of the manufacturing hierar- chy. In this process, we apply open standards currently being used in industry. The objective is to reduce the costs of linking machines to a higher-level MES, for example, by about 70 %. Changes in software may › result from embedded software in field devices connected via the field bus, e. g. in sensors, actuators, drives, valves, etc. › affect the controlling software of machinery and equipment, e. g. programmable logic controllers (PLCs) › be associated with the information technol- ogy above the level of the immediate equip- ment controls (manufacturing execution systems – MES). For several years now, IOSB’s team has been working on an USB-like interface for the equipment and components of a production system, which allows the control software to detect new or modified elements. Conse- quently, all the required information can be transmitted for the automated integration in the production process and the connected IT systems. IOSB has already demonstrated that this approach, which is based on open industry standards such as OPC UA and Auto- mationML, actually works, successfully imple- menting the IT systems of the ProVis product suite (in operational use at Daimler’s plants in Bremen and Wörth). In addition, the Karlsru- he-based company cjt Systemsoftware AG has successfully tested IOSB’s technology for Siemens’s WinCC system. Even today, we are able to export plant and equipment information, convert it to a stand- ardized format, and thus obtain all the relevant information for the automated configuration of monitoring and control systems. The auto- mated engineering of control systems even includes the generation of process control images with all the relevant connectivity infor- mation. To this end, we use CAEX (Computer Aided Engineering Exchange) and/or Automa- tionMLTM and OPC UA. Currently, these technologies are being fur- ther enhanced in another joint initiative. The SecurePLUGandWORK project ( www. secureplugandwork.de ) fo cuses on ensur- ing that only authorized participants (compo- nents, machines and IT systems) are allowed to connect with the production system and that the communication of the features is encrypted to prevent others from spying. Part- ners include the Karlsruhe-based company WIBU Systems AG. The universal interface for Industrie 4.0 will not be possible without simultaneous efforts for standardization. This is why we have been participating in various national and interna- tional standardization committees such as VDI (Association of German Engineers), VDMA (Mechanical Engineering Industry Association), Visualization / SCADA Production Monitoring & Control Wascmodu Trocodul Tempeur Gesgkeit Waschmodu Trockenmodul Temperatur Geschwindigkeit Wasmodu Trnmodul Teur Geskeit Abc_23-xy_Vors. Bbc_24-xy_T ist ? ? ? ? Dr. Olaf Sauer Image/Grafhics: © IOSB