@article {42150,
author={Holger Eichelberger and Christian Sauer and Amir Shayan Ahmadian and Christian Kröher},
title={Industry 4.0/IIoT Platforms for manufacturing systems - A systematic review contrasting the scientific and the industrial side},
journal={Information and Software Technology},
year={2024},
pages={107650},
doi={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107650},
url={https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584924002556},
abstract={<p>Context:<br />IIoT, Industry 4.0 or CPPS software platforms are cornerstones of smart manufacturing production systems. Such platforms integrate machines, IIoT and edge devices, realize distributed (management) functionality and provide the basis for user-defined IIoT applications. Individual instances in research and industrial practice do share commonalities while they also differ significantly.<br />Objective:<br />A detailed overview of the platform landscape is fundamental for innovative research. However, actual surveys and literature reviews concentrate on specific aspects and usually focus only on the research works, neglecting specific aspects of the industrial use of IIoT platforms. We aim at a systematic overview of the functionalities and approaches of scientific and industrial IIoT platforms along 16 analysis dimensions and thereby exposing gaps between the focuses of research on IIoT platforms and actual industrial IIoT platforms in use. By doing so we are able to highlight future areas of interest to research as well as indicating potentially over-researched areas which are of less interest in actual industrial IIoT platforms.<br />Method:<br />We combine a systematic literature review of scientific IIoT platform research with a systematic analysis of industrial IIoT platforms.<br />Results:<br />We start off with 1620 research papers plus 70 from snowballing that we systematically filter down to 36 papers providing sufficient information for a data extraction, which we analyze along 16 topics to extract actual capabilities and differences of relevant platform approaches. In a second step, we contrast these results with an analysis of 21 industrial platforms.<br />Conclusion:<br />Similar approaches, differences and topics for future are exhibited. In comparison with 21 industrial platforms along the same analysis topics, we distill various commonalities, differences, trends and gaps.</p>}
}
