The BMBF has published seven funding announcements for the
realization of Industry 4.0. Among other things, within the agenda of the
announcement published in 2013 "Virtual technologies for the factory of
the future - A contribution to the future project Industry 4.0",5 research
projects are funded.
IT strategy
Research funding in the IT sector concentrates on fields of
strategic importance. Largely ignored, the hardware basis of embedded and
cyber-physical systems is subject to rapid change. The hardware of these
systems today consists of classic single-core processors. In a few years they
will no longer be available and will be replaced by multi-core processors. The
consequences are considerable, but the potential for the user clearly outweighs
it. For every type of embedded system with a long service life, this changeover
to the new multi-core system architecture means dealing with fundamentally
different conditions - such as parallelism and concurrency. This change also
poses a special challenge for areas of application with certified embedded
systems. bolts
In addition, software for embedded systems is becoming more
complex, because with the desired end-to-end networking in the Internet of
Things, the functional dependencies between embedded systems also increase
exponentially and result in new reliability requirements. Guaranteeing the
security of networked systems is a further fundamental challenge that has not previously
had to be considered methodologically to the extent necessary today in the case
of embedded systems. For these requirements, the current software development
for embedded systems has reached the limit of its possibilities. In the wide
range of application domains, methodically well-founded software development
methods are required, which are also accepted in practice thanks to easy-to-use
tools.
The intelligent control and networking of machines and
systems is specific to Industry 4.0. For plant engineering, this already means
the integration of components in a plant that are often equipped with 25 or
more different software systems. Mechanical engineering, on the other hand,
which develops and maintains the software for its own product lines on a large
scale, sees itself challenged by the requirements of customer requests and
networking. The existing system landscapes in mechanical and plant engineering
are too fragmented and heterogeneous to allow an "ecosystem" of
suitable software developers and modern tools to arise. Efforts are required
here to standardize the various levels of the IT system architecture.
The BMBF funding is therefore aimed at three
levels:
1. Support in the changeover due to the change in software
development caused by multi-core hardware . The ARAMiS project, completed in
2015, provided effective methods for developing embedded multi-core systems.
The ARTEMIS project EMC² is working on making these systems more flexible in
order to further increase reliability and failure safety. And finally, the
ARAMiS II project, which started in 2016, is about efficient methods and tools
for the development of embedded multi-core systems.
2. Method and tool development for software production in
embedded systems.
The BMBF began in 2010 with the sequence of the projects
SPES 2020, SPES_XT Core and currently SPEDiT and CrESt to develop methods and
practical tools for software development in embedded systems. CrESt extends the
spectrum to collaborative embedded systems; SPEDiT is supposed to spread the
results.
3. Development of a basic Industry 4.0 system based on RAMI
4.0 as an architecture concept that offers a unified modular software environment
between embedded hardware and communication network or application software for
Industry 4.0.
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