The fourth industrial revolution, also termed Industry 4.0 (I4.0), will digitalize manufacturing operations and decentralize them from the shop floor to the office and across entire enterprise networks [1]. The proposed system-level digitalization solutions for I4.0 include cyber-physical systems [2] and digital twins [3]. Standardized I4.0 technologies are urgently required to change industry and guide market usage. The asset administration shell (AAS) of the I4.0 component [4] is a German symbolic model that is under development as an international standard in International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) project 63278-1. Not all engineers, researchers, and entrepreneurs have a basic knowledge of the AAS. Very few understand how to employ an AAS in practice. This article uses AASs to implement an I4.0 scenario, thus plug and produce (PnP) of industrial field devices. A three-layer, AAS-based implementation of PnP manufacture in line with I4.0 is developed. The synergy is to show that the AAS may help expedite I4.0 digitalization and propel its applications forward.

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面向工业4.0的即插即用功能：资产管理Shell方法

第四次工业革命，也被称为工业4.0（I4.0），将数字化制造运营并将其从车间分散到办公室以及整个企业网络[1]。为I4.0提出的系统级数字化解决方案包括网络物理系统[2]和数字孪生[3]。迫切需要标准化的I4.0技术来改变行业并指导市场使用。I4.0组件[4]的资产管理外壳（AAS）是德国符号模型，正在国际电工委员会（IEC）项目63278-1中作为国际标准开发。并非所有的工程师，研究人员和企业家都具有AAS的基本知识。很少有人了解如何在实践中采用AAS。本文使用AAS来实现I4.0方案，因此可以即插即用（PnP）工业现场设备。开发了符合I4.0的三层，基于AAS的PnP制造实施。这种协同作用表明，AAS可能有助于加速I4.0数字化并推动其应用向前发展。