The term Industry 4.0, which refers to the fourth industrial revolution, aims at the digitalization of industries, including all kinds of production assets. With the help of these, so-called industrial cyber-physical systems, which form the industrial Internet of Things, numerous novel use cases that are key enabler for a smart manufacturing, can be realized. However, existing facilities mainly consist of legacy equipment and technologies that do not offer these kind of flexibility. To address this issue, we introduce an architecture that allows a flexible reconfiguration and redeployment of future process control systems. Moreover, a high system availability and reliability, as required by industrial applications, has been taken into account. The architectural design follows the 4+1 model approach as it is available in the literature. This ensures, that the design results in a holistic architecture. Additionally, we provide insights into first results and outline future development steps.

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引入灵活的未来过程控制系统架构作为工业 4.0 的推动者

工业 4.0 一词指的是第四次工业革命，其目标是工业数字化，包括各种生产资产。借助这些形成工业物联网的所谓工业网络物理系统，可以实现许多新的用例，这些用例是智能制造的关键推动因素。然而，现有设施主要由不提供此类灵活性的遗留设备和技术组成。为了解决这个问题，我们引入了一种架构，允许灵活地重新配置和重新部署未来的过程控制系统。此外，还考虑了工业应用所需的高系统可用性和可靠性。建筑设计遵循文献中可用的 4+1 模型方法。这确保了设计产生了一个整体的架构。此外，我们提供对初步结果的见解并概述未来的开发步骤。