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Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
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An Introduction
Dr. Karsten Schweichhart
Leader(act.) AG1 „Standardization & Reference Architecture“
Plattform Industrie 4.0
The Internet of Things and Services
Smart Home
Smart Building Smart
Factory
Smart Meter
Industrie 4.0
Health-
care
Smartphone
Smart Devices
RAMI 4.0 ensures that all participants involved in Industrie 4.0 discussions
understand each other.
Work
Centers
• Hardware-based structure
• Functions are bound to hardware
Station
• Hierarchy-based communication
• Product is isolated
Control
Device
Field Device
Product
Smart
Products
Graphics © Anna Salari, designed by freepik
Axis 2 – Product Life Cycle
Maintenance Maintenance
Development Usage Production Usage
Type Instance
Graphics: Product Life Cycle, RAMI 4.0 © Plattform Industrie 4.0 and ZVEI, Additions by Dr. Peter Adolphs
Axis 3 – Architecture
Grafik © Plattform Industrie 4.0 und ZVEI, Piktogramme © Anna Salari, designed by freepik
Industrie 4.0 @ VDMA
Architecture Hierarchy
Business Processes
Digital World
Functions
Data
Communication
Digitalization
Real
Physical Things
Graphics RAMI 4.0 © Plattform Industrie 4.0 and ZVEI, Graphics: © Anna Salari, designed by freepik
Who provides intepretation? The Administration Shell…
Grafik © Anna Salari, designed by freepik, Modell Verwaltungsschale © ZVEI SG Modelle und Standards
The Roles and Responsibilities of the Administration Shell
• Each physical thing has its own administration shell.
• Several assets can form a thematic unit with a common administration
shell, several thematic units ...
Graphics © Anna Salari, designed by freepik, Administration Shell © ZVEI SG Modelle und Standards
The Industrie 4.0 Component
Functions Shell
• The administration shell
Data
Thing
forms the digital part
Communication (e.g., machine)
• The Thing forms the real
Digitalization part
Real
Physical Things
Graphics RAMI 4.0 © Plattform Industrie 4.0 and ZVEI, Administration Shell © ZVEI SG Modelle und Standards, Pictograph © Anna Salari, designed by freepik
Security as a Precondition and Enabler
• Security by design
• The basis of all Industrie 4.0 applications
More information:
http://www.plattform-
i40.de/I40/Navigation/EN/InPractice/Online-
Library/online-library.html