Electricity + Control July 2017

Electricity

Control

JULY 2017

IoT describes the archi-

tecture for applications

which include smart

home, smart health,

smart mobility and

smart grid.

Industry 4.0 focuses on

internet applications in

industry.

IoT is much broader than

Industry 4.0 while the

latter is more complete

for industrial purposes.

t is a great pleasure for me to exchange some

ideas with you at this Endress+Hauser VIP

Breakfast at Africa Automation Fair 2017. The

headline for my speech is ‘Value for Process In-

dustries with INDUSTRY 4.0’. Instead of INDUS-

TRY 4.0 we can talk as well about the ‘Internet of

Things (IoT)’ which is at the end a part of INDUS-

TRY 4.0. The difference is simply that the IoT is

describing the architecture for very different appli-

cations including the smart home, smart health,

smart mobility or smart grid while INDUSTRY 4.0

is focusing on the internet applications in industry.

From that point of view ‘IoT’ is much broader than

INDUSTRY 4.0. On the other side INDUSTRY 4.0

is more complete for industrial purposes. It is cov-

ering the integration along the value chain – we call

this horizontal integration, the vertical integration

from plant and factory floor to ERP and the integra-

tion along the engineering lifecycle. The ‘IoT’ archi-

tecture is currently not covering the engineering

lifecycle. All the rest is fairly the same but integra-

tion standards differ.

So we will deal with the future of our industry.

As human beings we want to prepare for the fu-

ture. MarkTwain said it in a very nice way: ‘Plan for

the future because that`s where you are going to

spend the rest of your life.’

So let us talk about the future of process auto-

mation and in particular about Industry 4.0. I would

like to cover three fields in my speech:

• Technology, products and automation solu-

tions

• Processes and business models

• A summary to prepare for discussion

1.Technology, products and automation

solutions

Let me start with the trends in technology. I will

concentrate on measurement and sensors since I

speak as the Vice President of the Endress+Haus-

er Supervisory Board.

Sensors

Our customers want robust sensors. That is most

important. Once integrated into the process plant

they should fulfill their defined function for years

or even decades. If possible they should not need

maintenance at all or maintenance intervals should

be as long as possible. To fulfill these requirements

it needs strong mechanics and an appropriate kind

of material.Therefore high alloy steel, ceramics and

fluor-polymers gained high importance for wetted

sensor parts. But all this is not new.

A robust sensor is further on as much as pos-

sible decoupled from the harsh conditions of the

process. The contactless sensor is ideal but not

always possible. The ideal is defining a trend. Mi-

crowave sensors, ultrasonic sensors or those em-

ploying optics gain importance to measure level,

flow or temperature or other parameters. But even

this trend is not really new. They have existed for

two or three decades.

Inline’ and ‘online’ measurement

Let me come to a third trend and that is really a new

one. It means to relocate analytical tasks from the

laboratory to the process. ‘Inline’ and ‘online’ meas-

urement instead of taking samples for lab testing.

Process and automation engineers have always had

Value for Process

Industries with

INDUSTRY 4.0

Michael Ziesemer, Endress+Hauser

Michael Ziesemer, Vice President of the Endress+Hauser Supervisory Board, gave

such an interesting speech at the Endess+Hauser VIP breakfast, Africa Automation

Fair, held on 6 – 8 June 2017. We share it with you.

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Take Note!

abbreviations

DCS

– Distributed Control System

– Data Definition

DTM

– Device Type Manager

ERP

– Enterprise Resource

Planning

I/O

– Input/Output

IoT

– Internet of Things

ISA

– ‘Industry Standard

Architecture