An Industry 4.0 demonstrator for cloud-based performance monitoring and assessment of industrial plants

This paper presents a technological demonstrator of key enabling technologies of Industry 4.0. The final scope of the project is the realization of a platform where different solutions addressing specific companies needs can be analyzed and their performance compared. Available Industry 4.0 technologies allows the realization of various architectures, even though the most appropriate solution has to be found by the company, accounting for different aspects, as economy, security, specific skills to be maintained or given in outsourcing. We first present the current core of the platform, which consists in a Control Loop Performance Monitoring (CLPM) system that operates in cloud as a single module able to supervise routine data coming from different plants. Subsequently, we provide an overview of future directions and enhancements