Towards smart production: Sensors, information flow, architecture and analysis

We present the lessons learnt and way forward after the national funded project iFeZ. A lot of practical challenges of a digitized production were tackled as the retrofit of 7 different sensor systems for process monitoring to test feasibility and interference. Furthermore, we introduce our open source-based architecture to transfer, store and visualize data and harmonize in-house developed expert systems. The transferability as well as their application to other process technologies is shown in the outlook.