A

Digital representation of an asset.

Note 1: Each administration shell can contain one or multiple part models.

Note 2: Administration shell is synonym to asset administration shell (AAS).

Note 3: The administration shell exists within one phase or across different phases of the lifecycle.

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)

Combination of elements of a model based on principles and rules for the purpose of its construction, development and utilization.

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)

Totality of all information in the information world whose validity or up-to-dateness has expired and which can, thus, no longer be changed.

Note 1: Information losing its validity or up-to-dateness is transferred to the archive world.

Note 2: No statement is made regarding the time at which information is transferred from the model world or state world to the archive world.

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)

Entity which is owned by or under the custodial duties of an organization, having either a perceived or actual value to the organization.

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)

Representation, in information technology, of a property a relation, or a class in information technology

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)

C

Implementation independant potential of an Industrie 4.0 component to achieve an effect within a domain.

Note 1: Capabilities can be orchestrated and hierarchically structured.

Note 2: Skills can be made executable via services.

Note 3: The impact manifests in a measurable effect within the physical world.

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)

Characteristic of a system, to adopt it with little effort to changes which were unknown during planning.

Note: Changes in the context of a manufacturing system are e.g. new product variants, changed norms, etc.

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)

(Self-organizing) interaction between service users in the context of higher-level specifications

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)

Classification of commmunication and identification capability

Note: Because the capability to communicate and the degree of familiarity recognized are so important (communication and presentation-CP), the membership of an element in its respective class can be expressed by a combined CP/numeric notation. A notation of this kind has proved itself useful in the field of IP protection classes, for example.

CP XY

Communication capability (X-digit)

  • 4 – capable of I4.0 conform communication
  • 3 – capable of active communication
  • 2 – capable of passive communication
  • 1 – not capable of communication

Degree of familiarity (Y-digit)

  • 4 – managed as entity
  • 3 – individually known
  • 2 – anonymously known
  • 1 – unknown

Example: CP33, for example, corresponds to an individually known component actively capable of communication – in other words, for example, a classic Profibus field device. A safety container which is monitored and managed throughout its life cycle but has no ability to communicate would come under CP class CP14.

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)

Non-directed interaction of I4.0 components each according to its own plans and purposes without a predefined pattern of behavior.

Source: Industrie 4.0 – Begriffe/Terms, VDI Statusreport Industrie 4.0 (April 2021)