Advances in Manufacturing ›› 2017, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (4): 335-343.doi: 10.1007/s40436-017-0197-2

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Development of an industrial Internet of things suite for smart factory towards re-industrialization

C. K. M. Lee1, S. Z. Zhang2, K. K. H. Ng1   

  1. 1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China;
    2 Department of Information Management, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
  • 收稿日期:2017-03-15 修回日期:2017-11-07 出版日期:2017-12-25 发布日期:2017-12-25
  • 通讯作者: C. K. M. Lee,E-mail:ckm.lee@polyu.edu.hk E-mail:ckm.lee@polyu.edu.hk

Development of an industrial Internet of things suite for smart factory towards re-industrialization

C. K. M. Lee1, S. Z. Zhang2, K. K. H. Ng1   

  1. 1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China;
    2 Department of Information Management, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
  • Received:2017-03-15 Revised:2017-11-07 Online:2017-12-25 Published:2017-12-25
  • Contact: C. K. M. Lee,E-mail:ckm.lee@polyu.edu.hk E-mail:ckm.lee@polyu.edu.hk

摘要:

Re-industrialization, which supports industrial upgrading and transformation, promotes smart production and high value-added manufacturing processes, and helps to create new momentum for the economic. Under the current situation, industrialists encounter several challenges to achieve re-industrialization. Firstly, the cost and technical thresholds for industrialists to leverage emerging technologies are high. Secondly, there are huge quantities and numerous types of Internet of things (IoT) devices in smart factories, warehouses and offices. The enormous extents of data exchange and communication, management, monitoring and control of IoT devices as well as the establishment and maintenance of a reliable cloud platform hinder industrialists to implement an integrated smart production management. Therefore, to achieve re-industrialization, an industrial Internet of things (ⅡoT) suite consisting of a micro-services-based ⅡoT cloud platform and ⅡoT-based smart hub is proposed, which helps to materialize re-industrialization and to conduct industrial upgrading and transformation to achieve smart production and high value-added manufacturing processes.

The full text can be downloaded at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40436-017-0197-2/fulltext.html

关键词: Industrial Internet of things (IIoTs), Cloud platform, Micro-services-based, Industry 4.0, Reindustrialization

Abstract:

Re-industrialization, which supports industrial upgrading and transformation, promotes smart production and high value-added manufacturing processes, and helps to create new momentum for the economic. Under the current situation, industrialists encounter several challenges to achieve re-industrialization. Firstly, the cost and technical thresholds for industrialists to leverage emerging technologies are high. Secondly, there are huge quantities and numerous types of Internet of things (IoT) devices in smart factories, warehouses and offices. The enormous extents of data exchange and communication, management, monitoring and control of IoT devices as well as the establishment and maintenance of a reliable cloud platform hinder industrialists to implement an integrated smart production management. Therefore, to achieve re-industrialization, an industrial Internet of things (ⅡoT) suite consisting of a micro-services-based ⅡoT cloud platform and ⅡoT-based smart hub is proposed, which helps to materialize re-industrialization and to conduct industrial upgrading and transformation to achieve smart production and high value-added manufacturing processes.

The full text can be downloaded at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40436-017-0197-2/fulltext.html

Key words: Industrial Internet of things (IIoTs), Cloud platform, Micro-services-based, Industry 4.0, Reindustrialization