Reference Models for Digital Manufacturing Platforms

This paper presents an integrated reference model for digital manufacturing platforms, based on cutting edge reference models for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. Digital manufacturing platforms use IIoT systems in combination with other added-value services to support manufacturing processes at different levels (e.g., design, engineering, operations planning, and execution). Digital manufacturing platforms form complex multi-sided ecosystems, involving different stakeholders ranging from supply chain collaborators to Information Technology (IT) providers. This research analyses prominent reference models for IIoT systems to align the definitions they contain and determine to what extent they are complementary and applicable to digital manufacturing platforms. Based on this analysis, the Industrial Internet Integrated Reference Model (I3RM) for digital manufacturing platforms is presented, together with general recommendations that can be applied to the architectural definition of any digital manufacturing platform.Conceptualization, R.P. and A.O.; investigation, F.F.; methodology, F.F. and R.S.; project administration, R.P. and A.O.; resources, R.P. and A.O.; supervision, R.P. and A.O.; validation, F.F.; writing—original draft, F.F. and R.S.; writing—review and editing, F.F., R.S., R.P. and A.O. This work has received funding from the Operational Program of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the Valencian Community 2014-2020 IDIFEDER/2018/025. The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the researchers participating in the collaborative projects "Zero Defect Manufacturing Platform" (ZDMP) (www.zdmp.eu) and "Intelligent manufacturing systems for industry 4.0" (sifabind4.ai2.upv.es)