Are Cloud Services Aware of Time? An Experimental Analysis oriented to Industry 4.0

Author(s):  
Stefano Rinaldi ◽  
Paolo Bellagente ◽  
Paolo Ferrari ◽  
Alessandra Flammini ◽  
Emiliano Sisinni
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 569-580
Author(s):  
Kateryna Kraus ◽  
Nataliia Kraus ◽  
Oleksandr Manzhura

The purpose of the research is to present the features of digitization of business processes in enterprises as a foundation on which the gradual formation of Industry 4.0 and the search for economic growth in new virtual reality, which has every chance to be a decisive step in implementing digital strategy for Ukraine and development of the innovation ecosystem. Key problems that arise during the digitalization of business processes in enterprises are presented, among which are: the historical orientation of production to mass, “running” sizes and large batches; large-scale production load; the complexity of cooperation and logic between production sites. It is determined that high-quality and effective tools of innovation-digital transformation in the conditions of virtual reality should include: a single system of on-line order management for all enterprises (application registration – technical expertise – planning – performance control – shipment); Smart Factory, Predictive Maintenance, IIoT, CRM, SCM. Features of digital transformation in the part of formation of enterprises of the ecosystem of Industry 4.0 are revealed. The capabilities and benefits of using Azure cloud platform in enterprises, which includes more than 200 products and cloud services, are analyzed. Azure is said to support open source technologies, so businesses have the ability to use tools and technologies they prefer and are more useful. After conducting a thorough analysis of the acceleration of deep digitalization of business processes by enterprises, authors proposed to put into practice Aruba solution for tracking contacts in the fight against COVID-19. Aruba technology helps locate, allowing you to implement flexible solutions based on Aruba Partner Ecosystem using a USB interface. It is proposed to use SYNTEGRA – a data integration service that provides interactive analytics and provides data models and dashboards in order to accelerate the modernization of data storage and management, optimize reporting in the company and obtain real-time analytics. The possibilities of using Azure cloud platform during the digitization of business processes of enterprises of the ecosystem of Industry 4.0 in the conditions of virtual reality are determined.


2017 ◽  
Vol 117 (10) ◽  
pp. 2305-2324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davy Preuveneers ◽  
Wouter Joosen ◽  
Elisabeth Ilie-Zudor

Purpose Industry 4.0 envisions a future of networked production where interconnected machines and business processes running in the cloud will communicate with one another to optimize production and enable more efficient and sustainable individualized/mass manufacturing. However, the openness and process transparency of networked production in hyperconnected manufacturing enterprises pose severe cyber-security threats and information security challenges that need to be dealt with. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a distributed trust model and middleware for collaborative and decentralized access control to guarantee data transparency, integrity, authenticity and authorization of dataflow-oriented Industry 4.0 processes. Findings The results of a performance study indicate that private blockchains are capable of securing IoT-enabled dataflow-oriented networked production processes across the trust boundaries of the Industry 4.0 manufacturing enterprise. Originality/value This paper contributes a decentralized identity and relationship management for users, sensors, actuators, gateways and cloud services to support processes that cross the trust boundaries of the manufacturing enterprise, while offering protection against malicious adversaries gaining unauthorized access to systems, services and information.


Author(s):  
Andrej Gurjanov ◽  
Danil Zakoldaev ◽  
Anatolij Shukalov ◽  
Igor Zharinov

Blockchain is going to be the most fundamental technology, and will change the world — going forward. In fact, the revolution has already begun. The birth of Industry 4.0 aka the Fourth Industrial Relution (I4.0), has created a need for autonomous and integrated, secure manufacturing systems. The current smart systems lack the decentralized decision making and real-time communication infrastructure, which is a condition for adaptive, smart manufacturing systems. In this paper, an autonomous, secure and collaborative platform based on Blockchain technology, is presented to adapt to such results. In support with Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud services, a Blockchain Driven Cyber Physical Production System (BDCPS) architecture is designed to communicate with machines, users, devices, suppliers and other peers. Using the Smart Contracts feature and trust-less peer-to-peer decentralized ledger feature, BDCPS will validate the claim with a small-scale real-life Blockchain with IoT system. This implementation case study will be running a private Blockchain on a single board computer, and bridged to a microcontroller containing IoT sensors. The applications of this system in automotive manufacturing industry are presented, to proceed towards Industry 4.0.


2020 ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
Oscar Mares Banuelos ◽  
Arquímedes Arcega Ponce ◽  
Enrique Macias Calleros ◽  
Alfredo Salvador Cardenas Villalpando

This research work describes the methodology used to manage a digital transformation center located in the Tecomán Valley, Colima, México, which involved actions of the triple helix management model. The phases deployed to materialize this long-term project that involves the participation of academia, the state and private initiatives are addressed. The results are the implementation of infrastructure to deploy industry 4.0 projects: IoT, cloud services and precision agriculture. In the current year 2020, other IT services.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Lubna Luxmi Dhirani ◽  
Thomas Newe

Hybrid Cloud Service Level Agreements (SLA) comprises of the legal terms and conditions for the cloud contract. Even though all the service level objectives, metrics and service descriptions are clearly outlined in the cloud SLA contract, sometimes vendors fail to meet the promised services and confusing terms lead to tenant-vendor cloud legal battles. Hybrid Cloud involves two different cloud models (public and private) working together, applications running under the hybrid cloud are subject to different availability sets, functionality and parameters developing SLA complexity and ambiguity. The new manufacturing environment (Industry 4.0 concept) is based on a fully connected, intelligent and automated factory, which will highly be dependent on cloud computing and IoT-based solutions for data analytics, storage and computational needs. In situations where Hybrid cloud services are not defined and managed properly may result in Industrial-IoT data security issues leading to financial and data losses. This paper discusses various aspects of the cloud service level agreement in Industry 4.0 for better understanding and implementation and puts a light on the issues that arise out of imprecise statements.


ACTA IMEKO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Mariorosario Prist ◽  
Andrea Monteriù ◽  
Emanuele Pallotta ◽  
Paolo Cicconi ◽  
Alessandro Freddi ◽  
...  

The pillars of Industry 4.0 require the integration of a modern smart factory, data storage in the Cloud, access to the Cloud for data analytics, and information sharing at the software level for simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) capabilities. The resulting cyber-physical system (CPS) is often termed the cyber-physical manufacturing system, and it has become crucial to cope with this increased system complexity and to attain the desired performances. However, since a great number of old production systems are based on monolithic architectures with limited external communication ports and reduced local computational capabilities, it is difficult to ensure such production lines are compliant with the Industry 4.0 pillars. A wireless sensor network is one solution for the smart connection of a production line to a CPS elaborating data through cloud computing. The scope of this research work lies in developing a modular software architecture based on the open service gateway initiative framework, which is able to seamlessly integrate both hardware and software wireless sensors, send data into the Cloud for further data analysis and enable both HIL and cloud computing capabilities. The CPS architecture was initially tested using HIL tools before it was deployed within a real manufacturing line for data collection and analysis over a period of two months.


Author(s):  
O. Savytska ◽  
V. Salabai

Abstract. The article considers and analyzes the importance and main scientific approaches to determining the essence of digital transformation in the conditions of Industry 4.0 development. The opinions of domestic and foreign scientists on the definition of the essence of this concept are presented and it is determined that digitalization has an important role in the activities of modern enterprises. The definition of «digitalization» is proposed, that means the process of transition to digital business, which is the use of digital technologies to change business processes in the company and provide new opportunities for additional income and development prospects of business entities. It is determined that digitalization is a very popular and necessary process of transition to new business models in the activities of companies. The essence of the category «Industry 4.0» is considered and the main technologies and tools that contribute to the gradual transition to digitalization are presented. It is noted that Industry 4.0 is part and a leading trend of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is investigated that the transition to Industry 4.0 using digital tools is quite a trend, as these key technologies such as IoT, Big Data, cloud services, artificial intelligence today play a key role in the process of digitalization of companies. The main recommendations for adapting the business to digital transformations are given. The key directions of the development of digital technologies of Industry 4.0 are considered and presented. The industries that need digital transformation and those areas of business that are actively implementing digital products in their activities are identified. It was also found that the use of digitalization processes allows companies to optimize existing business models, gain new opportunities for business development, expand the scope of activities, and have tools to increase their efficiency and competitiveness. Keywords: digital transformation, digitalization­, digital technologies, Industry 4.0. JEL Classification O39, O33 Formulas: 0; tabl.: 1; fig.: 2; bibl.: 16.


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