The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) poses multiple challenges to traditional standardization, due to the complexity, dynamics, and accelerating speed of technological progress. The need for a timely availability of standards calls for new approaches and tools to enhance standardization processes for smart manufacturing. Industry and standards development organizations worldwide are seeking new solutions. Testbeds have been acknowledged in innovation policy as a powerful tool for knowledge transfer and the further development of emerging technologies. Lately, they have also attracted increasing attention from the standardization perspective as a promising tool for a more agile standards development process. Proponents of such testbeds expect them to support standardization by providing validated solutions and accelerating the processes to meet the growing demands for faster standardization without any detriment to quality. In an explorative, qualitative approach this article is the first to investigate the operation and impact of testbeds in standardization processes based on a multiple case study on testbeds implemented worldwide in the context of the IIoT.

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迈向敏捷标准化：支持 IIoT 标准化的测试平台


由于技术进步的复杂性、动态性和加速速度，工业物联网 (IIoT) 对传统标准化提出了多重挑战。及时提供标准的需要需要新的方法和工具来增强智能制造的标准化流程。世界各地的行业和标准制定组织正在寻求新的解决方案。测试平台在创新政策中被认为是知识转移和新兴技术进一步发展的强大工具。最近，它们也从标准化的角度吸引了越来越多的关注，作为更灵活的标准开发过程的有前景的工具。此类测试台的支持者希望它们能够通过提供经过验证的解决方案并加速流程来支持标准化，以满足对更快标准化不断增长的需求，而不会损害质量。本文首次采用探索性定性方法，基于对工业物联网背景下全球实施的测试台的多个案例研究，调查了标准化流程中测试台的运行和影响。