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Glossar
Security
State which in the technical context covers among other items functional safety, reliability and IT security
Note 1: The German term “Sicherheit” translates to either “security” or “safety” in English.
Note 2: Due to the breadth of this subject area, this term definition will not be treated in greater detail.
Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2017)
Service
Demarcated scope of functionality which is offered by an entity or organization via interfaces
Note: One or multiple operations can be assigned to one service
Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2017)
Service consumer
Service orientation
Paradigm which enables the straightforward exchange, addition or removal of loosely coupled services
Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2017)
Service provider
Skill of an I4.0 component
Potential of an Industrie 4.0 component to achieve an effect within a domain
Note 1: Skills can be described as the sum of all properties (see IEC61360).
Note 2: The comparison between requirements and assurances is realized via properties of the skill.
Note 3: Skill can be orchestrated and hierarchically structured.
Note 4: Capability is often used as synonym to skill.
Note 5: Skills can be made executable via services.
Note 6: The impact manifests in a measurable effect within the physical world.
Smart Factory
Factory whose degree of integration has reached a level which makes self-organizing functions possible in production and in all business processes relating to production
Note: The virtual representation of the factory makes intelligent decisions possible. The aim is to increase efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility and/or adaptability.
Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2017)
Smart Product
Produced or manufactured (intermediate) product which in a smart factory delivers the (outward) communication capability to network and to interact intelligently with other production participants
Note 1: The product is a produced or manufactured article or semi-finished product.
Note 2: A digital image is part of the product intelligence and can be localized on the product itself but also spatially separate from it.
Note 3: Unique identification and product-related information makes it possible for the product to be linked to the smart factory.
Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2017)
Smart Production
Dialogue between smart factory and smart product
Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2017)
State
Manifestation of the characteristics of an object at a certain point in time
Note 1: An object can only have one state at any point in time.
Note 2: Statements about a state can be made without any specific reference to a time.
Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2017)
State world
Totality of information currently collected in the information world
Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2017)
System
A multitude of components that are all related to each other
Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2017)