In the past, Plattform Industrie 4.0, Germany, and Robot Revolution & Industrial IoT Initiative (RRI), Japan announced five publications, “facilitating international cooperation for secure Industrial Internet of Things/ Industry 4.0”.
RRI, Japan and Plattform Industrie 4.0, Germany, concentrated their activities to the possibility of creating trustworthy relationships between companies, regardless of their business histories or geographical locations. Therefore, our previously published whitepaper elaborated the role of trustworthiness in global value chains and introduced the concept of chain of trust along global supply chains. In order to create digital business relationships across continents, all security related entities and communication pro cesses need to be trustworthy.
Plattform Industrie 4.0 and RRI decided to proceed with the topic ‘realizing supply chain trustworthiness’ and worked on describing different chain of trustworthiness topologies and identifying trustworthiness supporting infrastructure.