Towards Industry 4.0: Gap Analysis between Current Automotive MES and Industry Standards using Model-Based Requirement Engineering

摘要

The dawn of the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0 has created greatenthusiasm among companies and researchers by giving them an opportunity topave the path towards the vision of a connected smart factory ecosystem.However, in context of automotive industry there is an evident gap between therequirements supported by the current automotive manufacturing executionsystems (MES) and the requirements proposed by industrial standards from theInternational Society of Automation (ISA) such as, ISA-95, ISA-88 over whichthe Industry 4.0 is being built on. In this paper, we bridge this gap byfollowing a model-based requirements engineering approach along with a gapanalysis process. Our work is mainly divided into three phases, (i) automotiveMES tool selection phase, (ii) requirements modeling phase, (iii) and gapanalysis phase based on the modeled requirements. During the MES tool selectionphase, we used known reliable sources such as, MES product survey reports,white papers that provide in-depth and comprehensive information about variouscomparison criteria and tool vendors list for the current MES landscape. Duringthe requirement modeling phase, we specified requirements derived from theneeds of ISA-95 and ISA-88 industrial standards using the general purposeSystems Modeling Language (SysML). During the gap analysis phase, we find themisalignment between standard requirements and the compliance of the existingsoftware tools to those standards.