RRI International Symposium 2020
October 14, 2020

Japan-Germany Standardization Collaborationin Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)- Second Stage 2020 -Fumihiko Kimura
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo

Contents• Bilateral approach on harmonizing standardization• Usage View of Seamless and Dynamic Engineering of Plants (SDP)• Outlook for the second stage activities

Contents• Bilateral approach on harmonizing standardization• Usage View of Seamless and Dynamic Engineering of Plants (SDP)• Outlook for the second stage activities日本 – German Cooperation2017 Common Strategy of RRI – Platform I4.0 – SCI 4.0• Based on initial contacts in 2016
• Preparation of 2017 G20 meeting• Confirmed direction:• Development of common
use cases• Use of the reference models
in focused areas• Identification ofstandardization requirements• Support of standardization
work[From the presentation by Dr. Jens Gayko]
20120 Standardization Council Industrie 4.0

Use case approach• In the international community, it is broadly accepted that new standardization
activities are particularly useful when driving use cases behind them are formulated
and clearly understood. In this respect, an internationally uniform understanding ofuse cases in the context of I 4.0 and IIoT is a central starting point in the cooperation.
Use cases are an instrument to build a bridge, from the driving challenges facing themanufacturing industry to the appropriate possible technical solutions. Use cases
also offer the possibility to derive new requirements for standardization.
• It was agreed among the two countries that use cases are important base scenarios
to analyse and identify technical requirements for deployment, expansion and new
developments of the standards afterwards. The cooperation has reached a commonunderstanding, and now supports the work especially in international standardizationgroups.

日本 – German Cooperation
Common Publications
Joint discussion papers on use case study[From the presentation by Dr. Jens Gayko]
20120 Standardization Council Industrie 4.0

Contents• Bilateral approach on harmonizing standardization• Usage View of Seamless and Dynamic Engineering of Plants (SDP)• Outlook for the second stage activities

Top-down Approach to Standardization• Traditionally standardization work has been done, based on the“consensus” principle, assuming that technology is already known.
• In smart manufacturing era, standardization can not start from theexisting standards or technology, but from the user’s high level vision anddemand. Then detailed requirements are derived.
• Application scenario is a high level description for the future target.
• Requirements for standardization are derived from such high level user
description in a top-down manner.

• Before going into the detailed technical discussion, it is important toagree on the requirements for target of standardization.

Top-down Approach to Standardization• Application Scenario• describes how industry perceives its digital future,• indicates areas posing challenges, e.g. standards, research, security, legal
framework, labor, etc.

Top-down Approach to Standardization• Industrial InternetConsortium (IIC)
Industrial Internet
Reference Architecture(IIRA)• Industrial Internet
Architecture Viewpoint

Top-down Approach to Standardization: Use Case
Application
Scenario

Top-down Approach

Business View

Possible future business scenarios
Use Case

Technical use cases

Interactions ofstakeholders anda system

New products, solutions, services&Standardization requirements

New Services

Usage View

Functional View
Standardization
Requirements
Gap analysis to identify
missing standardsUse-Case Driven Top-down Approach: Summary
Value-Based Service

Top-down approach
The starting point is possible
future business scenarios,
from which more technicaluse case descriptions arederived.
These use cases are the basis
to derive new products,
solutions, and services as well
as standardization
requirements.

Asset Administration Shell

Seamless and Dynamic
Engineering of Plants

“Seamless and Dynamic Engineering of Plants”
The overall principle of the application scenario “Seamless and Dynamic Engineering ofPlants” is that in an initial engineering process for engineering and construction of aplant, an integrating plant model is created, which is maintained and kept consistentthroughout the lifecycle of the realized plant in permanently interrelated processes
between engineering, operation and service of the plant.
The core of this application scenario is a plant model on which the partners involved
can set up adequately. They can put their information into the model and extract fromthe model the information they need. This integrating plant model is the basis for
information about the plant thus (new) value-added services can be created. The
engineering of plants becomes more dynamic in the sense that changes of the plant
become more frequent, more short-term, and the partners involved have to work in amore integrated, forward-looking, and thus reflexive way (meaning with regard topossible consequences of changes).
Such a model is the prerequisite for the future competitiveness of plant engineeringand construction business.

Business view of application scenario SDPDifferent business exemplifications of application scenarios SDPUsage view of SDP

The integrating plant model
is a specific exemplificationof a set of models which
includes all model objects
that are considered in aspecific case.

SDP: Examples for illustration
1. Installation and replacement of a physical pump

2. Virtual commissioning
3. Engineering of modular plants
4. Recipe-driven production of active pharmaceutical ingredientsContents• Bilateral approach on harmonizing standardization• Usage View of Seamless and Dynamic Engineering of Plants (SDP)• Outlook for the second stage activities

Objectives
Both partners will work together to achieve the following objectives. This
includes strengthening the foundation of cooperation by:• reaching a common understanding of standardization approaches andconcepts• continuation and establishment of constant and open information
sharing• supporting the adoption of national/international standards toharmonise the framework conditions for Industrie 4.0 (Germany) andConnected Industries (Japan)• identifying standardization requirements and providing input for several
international standard activities

Scope
The following areas are set as the scope of the cooperation:• prior study of the subject of standardization, and study for dissemination(Example: Application scenario)• discussion and consideration of the future vision of standardization insmart manufacturing• items related to standardization in problem solving future society such asSociety 5.0 (Japan)

New technologies and topics
In consequence of the achieved exchange level in the identification of standard
requirements, the cooperation seeks to foster the technical exchange on newtechnologies and topics, including:• continuation of use case elaboration• elaboration of substantive operation of asset-oriented information andfunction structuring• investigation of new utilization of combination of maturity model and use caseas input to related organizations• exploring potential areas of harmonization and aligned activities atinternational level (ISO/IEC) e.g. edge configuration considerations,
examination of standardized requirements for human-machine interaction
These are the examples of the target fields, but this cooperation is notnecessarily limited to them.

Summary• Standardization is critically important for realizing smart manufacturing
towards global and sustainable developments. Germany and Japan haveagreed to cooperate in the developments of international standards andactivities from Standard Development Organizations (SDO) by sharing
information and setting up consistent strategy and action plans. To widen
the perspective, the cooperation seeks also to involve future visions ofstandardization related to smart manufacturing.
• The underlying aim and motivation for the collaboration is to maintain an
open forum for timely information sharing and active discussion on any
interesting issues of smart manufacturing and its standardization.