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This paper presents an approach to how existing production systems that are not Industry 4.0-ready can be expanded to participate in an Industry 4.0 factory. Within this paper, a concept is presented how production systems can be discovered and included into an Industry 4.0 (I4.0) environment, even though they did not have I4.0-interfaces when they have been manufactured. The concept is based on a communication gateway and an information server. Besides the concept itself, this paper presents a validation that demonstrates applicability of the developed concept.
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The authors are grateful to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and to the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AIF) for funding parts of the presented work in the projects ‘pICASSO’ and ‘Cloudplug’.
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Schlechtendahl, J., Keinert, M., Kretschmer, F. et al. Making existing production systems Industry 4.0-ready. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 9, 143–148 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-014-0586-3
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