FITMAN Future Internet Enablers for the Sending Enterprise: a FIWARE Approach & Industrial Trialing.

Future Internet technologies (BigData, Cloud Computing, Mobile Web Apps, etc.) offer manufacturing industries the possibility to engage in a digital transformation leveraging advanced business processes. Furthermore, IoT technologies are enabling technologies for new Smart Manufacturing solutions. The FITMAN project, Future Internet Technologies for Manufacturing Industries, is working on the development of Generic and Specific Enablers (GE, SE) that are the essential components of 3 reference platforms (smart, digital and virtual factory). The paper will discuss and present the enablers and architectures implemented by the enterprises for providing advanced and innovative services based on Future Internet technologies. The paper will also present the high-level features that are leveraged by the FITMAN reference platforms and the associated GEs/SEs to develop new business processes. The paper will show how these enablers and high-level features represent a solid and flexible technical foundation for communities of developers and practitioners to develop digital business processes in an open & programmable internet, through concrete industry-led trials.