Japan-Germany Expert Forum

Review of Standardization
Requirements inEdge Management
Andreas Graf Gatterburg (Labs Network Industrie 4.0 Testbed Edge
Management / Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH)
Shinji Oda (International Standard AG, RRI / CSO, Yokogawa ElectricCorporation)

Topics• Background, Scope and Motivation: Andreas Graf Gatterburg• What is Edge Management• Why Edge Management is important• Scope• Value chain around Edge Management• Benefit of Edge Management standardization: Shinji Oda• Typical business cases• Sample User stories• Conclusion: Summary and Future Activities

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Background, Scope andMotivation3Industrie 4.0 Stakeholders
Setup in Germany
Expert community from industry and academia

Input
FR, IT, NL, A, CH, PL, DK, SW, FI, ES(UK)USChinaJapan

South Korea

India

OutputInternational collaboration

DigitalTransformation

Standardizing

Testing

Directive about relevant standards

Transfer of test results to standardization
Standardization (IT)Normative (OT)

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What is Edge Management

5Why Edge Management is important
Machine Builder IT
New Application

SW Update

Customer A Site

Install SW update atdifferent sites

Deploy a new application on
devices from different vendors

Customer B Site

Customer C Site6

Scope of Edge Management
publishes inapplication
developeredge management systemprovidesedge management systemproviderdevice configuration
tool

application
configuration
tool

providesapplication store

application
system integrator

provides runtime
environment

provides runtime
environment

IT infrastructure
integrates

applicationuses

edge runtime provider

providescommunication

provides runtime
environmentedge runtime
hosted onedge device
providerprovidesplant operator

edge deviceedge
infrastructurecommunication

field device
providerprovidesfield device

7Value Chain around Edge Management
providesEdge Management Provider

Component Supplier

Machine Supplierdelivers
component

System Integrator
integrates
machine & edge infrastructuredeliversmachinedeliversedge infrastructure

Machine Userdeliversedge infrastructureData-based Service Provider

product value chain

data & service value chain8

Benefit of Edge Management
standardization9

Typical business cases• Component Supplier• New data-based services• Machine Supplier• Improved remote services• System Integrator• New, higher-value
optimization services• Machine User

providesComponent
Supplier delivers

component

Edge Management
ProviderMachineSystemMachine
integrates
Supplier delivers Integrator machine& edge Usermachine

infrastructure• Interested in all services above
Data-based
Service Provider

deliversedge infrastructure

product value chain

deliversedge infrastructure

data & service value chain

10Component Supplier Business Case
• New data-based
services• Deliver service
based on gathereddata regardless of
installed machine• e.g. gearings
supplier integrating
additional sensing
capabilities to thecomponent

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Machine Supplier Business Case
• Improved remote
services• Deliver service
remotely, based ongathered data,independently from
Machine User orSystem Integrator

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System Integrator Business Case
• New, higher-value
optimization
services• Deliver optimization
service based ongathered data
• New type of service
is expected, as the“plug & operate”
capabilities ofmachines anddevices increase13

Machine User Business Case
• Enjoy benefits of
the new services• Component Supplier• New data-based
services• Machine Supplier• Improved remoteservices• System Integrator• New, higher-value
optimization services

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Sample User Story• AI engine training
and deployment• Easy to gather datafor training• Simple to deploy
trained engines tosites, regardless ofmachines

15Additional User stories• Peer-to-peer communication between edges• Edge device communication between edges for exchanging
information such as production scheduling to optimize supplychain• Communication initiated by edge
• Device management initiated by edge device, such as firmware
upgrade16

Conclusion

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Summary and Future Activities• Japan-Germany Expert Forum has been working on the “EdgeManagement” document and it was appreciated by LNI4.0
LNI4.0 expert group is most thankful to the Japanese experts who kindly
discussed our initial documents with us. The joint paper on the updated
Usage View on Edge Management will be a significant improvement over
our initial vision thanks to the valuable input we have gotten from ourdistinguished Japanese colleagues. An improvement on this scale would
not have been possible without the support and insightful ideas we
received from Japan.

• Japan-Germany Expert Forum keeps contributing to update Usage
View document, including new user stories• The document will be updated based on the input from the forum18

Thank you!

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