Description
Through providing digital services, machine tool manufacturing companies can address the customer demands for individual solutions and the increasing cost pressure. Applications are one way to provide these digital services, running on smart machine tools connected to software systems, known as industrial Internet of Things (iIoT) platforms. Despite the growing potential of iIoT platforms in the provision of industrial digital services and the increasing awareness of the platform approach among manufacturing companies, lack of requirements makes the platform challengeable for machine tool companies. Moreover, the domain specific industrial application of platforms has been limitedly researched, indicating a possible research gap. This paper presents a literature-based research on requirements for iIoT platforms, followed by the solution-oriented metrics, to fulfill each requirement. Together, the requirements and metrics form a structured criteria catalog for iIoT platforms, which can be used as a decision support tool for the machine tool industry.
Criteria Catalog for Industrial IoT Platforms from the Perspective of the Machine Tool Industry
Through providing digital services, machine tool manufacturing companies can address the customer demands for individual solutions and the increasing cost pressure. Applications are one way to provide these digital services, running on smart machine tools connected to software systems, known as industrial Internet of Things (iIoT) platforms. Despite the growing potential of iIoT platforms in the provision of industrial digital services and the increasing awareness of the platform approach among manufacturing companies, lack of requirements makes the platform challengeable for machine tool companies. Moreover, the domain specific industrial application of platforms has been limitedly researched, indicating a possible research gap. This paper presents a literature-based research on requirements for iIoT platforms, followed by the solution-oriented metrics, to fulfill each requirement. Together, the requirements and metrics form a structured criteria catalog for iIoT platforms, which can be used as a decision support tool for the machine tool industry.