[PROGRESS REPORT]
Joint Use Case Development –Value Based Services

Progress report on the analysis and development of common Use Cases
Value Based Services as a business application scenario

A joint project ofRobot Revolution Initiative RRI – Standardization Council Industrie 4.0 – Labs Network
Industrie 4.0

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Members Japan-German Experts Task Force:
Standardization Council Industrie 4.0 (SCI4.0)
Frankfurt, Germany
Contact:

Reinhold Pichler, Managing Director SCI4.0
Tel: +49-69-6308-306 | E-Mail: reinhold.pichler@vde.com
Yves Leboucher, Manager International Cooperations
Tel: +49-69-6308-432 | E-Mail: yves.leboucher@vde.com

Robot Revolution Initiative (RRI)
Tokyo, Japan
Contact:

Prof. Fumihiko Kimura, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Tel: +81-3-3947-3385 | E-Mail: fmkimura@bc.iij4u.or.jp
Toru Ishikuma, Chief Automation Standard Officer, Azbil Corporation
Tel: +81-80-2094-5816 | E-Mail: t.ishikuma.j7@azbil.com
Dr. Youichi Nonaka, Senior Chief Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd.
Tel: +81-50-3135-2001 | E-Mail: Youichi.nonaka.ym@hitachi.com
Shinji Oda, Chief Standards Officer, Yokogawa Electric Corporation
Tel: +81-422-52-5519 | E-Mail: Shinji.Oda@jp.yokogawa.com
Yutaka Manchu, Deputy Secretary-general (Industrial IoT Specialist), RRI
Tel: +81-3-3434-6571 | E-Mail: jimukyoku@jmfrri.gr.jp

Labs Network Industrie 4.0
Berlin, Germany
Contact:

Dr. Ulrich Löwen, Senior Principal Key Expert Engineer, Siemens AG
Tel: +49-9131-7-32948 | E-Mail: Ulrich.loewen@siemens.com

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1. Management Summary of the common strategy on international
standardization in field of the Industrial Internet ofThings/Industrie 4.0
The objective of this common strategy paper is the consistent continuation of the common strategy oninternational standardization in field of the Industrial Internet of Things/Industrie 4.0 between thepartner countries of Japan (Robot Revolution Initiative) and Germany (Standardization Council Industrie
4.0 & Labs Network Industrie 4.0). The main focus is to identify and share the recognition of important
issues about smart manufacturing. This paper follows and supports the statement and strategic joint
action plan for an analysis and consolidation of common Use Case terms.
For the future views and topics agreed between Germany and Japan, the ideal operation images should
be described in text as “Use Cases”. Use Cases need to show which functions of organization, human andproduction units would work closely together in how effective manners, then would deliver what values
to whom in manufacturing activities. Use Cases are recognized as important base scenarios to analyse andidentify technical requirements for deployment, expansion and new developments of the standards
afterwards.

The context
The Japan-Germany Experts Task Force intends to give an outlook on the proceedings of the analysis anddevelopment of common Use Cases with some references to the Functional Viewpoint aspects of theValue-based Services (VBS) and an overview on the relevant next steps.
In the context of Industrie 4.0 for some time now, the recognition is aware that – in addition to atechnologically driven bottom-up approach – one must complement the topic of digitization inmanufacturing industries also by a top-down driven approach. In such a top-down approach the starting
point are possible future business scenarios, from which more technically use case descriptions arederived. These use cases are the basis to derive new products, solutions, and services as well as
standardization requirements.
In the context of the so-called “smart grids”, this approach has already been used, where the use cases
have been described based on the template proposed by IEC 62559-2. However, the topic “smart grid” ismuch more focused with respect to possible business scenarios than the digitization in manufacturingindustries. Therefore, a direct application of this template for the description of use cases seems not to bepurposeful, because it requires upfront a too high depth of detail.
On the other hand, it is recognized that the application scenarios of Plattform Industrie 4.0 provide arepresentative overview of the new business opportunities in the context of the digitization in
manufacturing industries. Therefore, need for action from a methodological point of view is less at thelevel of the business scenarios, but to now concretize these business scenarios from a technical point ofview.

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Application Scenario VBS – Value-Based ServiceToday typically a product provider delivers a product to a customer and does not have any feedback fromthe usage of his product by the customer. The application scenario VBS – Value-Based Service is based on
the innovation hypothesis that in the future delivered products will be connected to a service platform,
data from the usage of the product by the customer will be fed to the service platform, and based on theusage data a service provider can offer data-driven value-added services to the customer. The figure
below illustrates the participating stakeholder, the underlying value network, and the new information
flow from the customer to the service platform as the basis for new data driven services.

Objectives
It is therefore the goal of the Japan-German Task Force to focus on the description of the usage viewpointand functional viewpoint aspects. The scope has been set in consideration of a concrete application
scenario of Plattform Industrie 4.0 – in particular the application scenario Value-Based Service.
The present results were initiated by the Working Group Modelling Example of the GMA TechnicalCommittee 7.21 “Industrie 4.0 – Terminology, Reference Models, and Architectural Concepts”, and havebeen forwarded as part of the strategic joint action plan for an analysis and consolidation of common Use
Case terms of Germany-Japan cooperation.
Both team agreed to select Value Based Services as business application scenario. A Usage Viewpoint
paper preparation is ongoing by Germany and Functional Viewpoint assessment is started by Japan inparallel.

Next steps until 2018
#1 Completion of the description of the Usage Viewpoint for a concrete business setup within the group“modelling examples”#2 Completion of the description of the Functional Viewpoint aspects#3 Detailing the “Use Cases” within TC65 Smart Manufacturing, Germany-Japan cooperation#4 Achieve overall goal and create descriptions that match each other at the interface between Usage
Viewpoint and Functional Viewpoint

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