Engineering Roles and Information Modeling for Industry 4.0 Production System Engineering

Industrial production systems are complex automated systems-of-systems. Especially in case of Industry 4.0 production systems, their design phase relies on parallel cooperative work of engineers coming from several disciplines. This paper identifies key engineering roles and their interactions in the design phase. Based on the analysis of shared information among engineers, this paper contributes to the specification of an information model of shared common concepts. Such an information model is useful for designing a central repository in production system engineering projects as well as a basis for standardization processes and engineering tool evaluation. The roles and relevant information are based on lessons learned from the use case of an Industry 4.0 Testbed environment.