Published on 02/16/2017 | Use Cases
Plattform Industrie 4.0 created a country-wide visualisation of IIoT projects in Germany, featuring 148 projects in various cities.
Overview of Plattform Industrie 4.0's findings:
• Most of the IIoT use cases are found in the southwestern region of Germany
• 87 use cases are classified as "market-ready/productive use"
• Production & Supply Chain use cases account for 106 out of 148.
• "Automation components" and "software solutions" are the most popular products applied using IIoT technologies.
The Industrie 4.0 shows more than 500 sites where funded Industrie 4.0 projects are being carried out in Germany. There are a number of testbeds at specialist centres at universities and research institutions in Germany where complex production and logistics systems are tested under realistic conditions and developed further.
While IIoT use cases tend to be concentrated around the southwestern regions, IIoT testbeds are most concentrated near Hannover, with most of them being spread in the western regions.
Networking the testbeds enables distributed production and application processes to be simulated realistically across several test environments. You can learn more about the testbeds in Germany here.
