Shortfacts - May 2020

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Networking is a key feature of Industry 4.0 scenarios. Data flows not only between cyber-physical systems in the smart factory, but also between specialist departments, companies and other stakeholders.

For this to happen, a mindset is required from everyone involved: openness for intensive collaboration in the ecosystem. The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, which was founded in 2019, aims to do just that.

So far, over 50 industrial companies, software providers and consultancies have joined forces. The management and IT consultancy MHP has also been an active member of the alliance since February 2020. One focus is the combination and orchestration of existing standards into a framework, as this is the only way to achieve connectivity.

MHP intends to work primarily on the vertical and horizontal integration of processes and use cases for the discrete industry in order to sharpen IoT frameworks for the mobility and manufacturing environment from existing standards and new recommendations for action.

MHP also focuses on defining use cases and solutions in the areas of Open Edge Computing and Open Operator Cloud Platform.