1. Future Cyber-Physical Systems Platforms
Road2CPS / CONNECT A3 Workshop
Turin, 8 October 2015
Dr. Werner Steinhögl
Programme officer DG CONNECT – A3 European Commission

2. Why this workshop?
ARTEMIS community works on key nodes of the digital value chains of the future: safety-critical and real-time systems
The ones who master and control these nodes will have a competitive advantage
Europe needs to prepare

3. Strategy: Products, Processes and Business models
"Digital inside": Innovations in all types of products
Smart connected objects powered by Sensors, wearables, embedded software, Connectivity, Big data, Cloud …
Large opportunities in all sectors (Non-tech, high-tech, SMEs, etc)
Digital transformations of processes
From logistics and product design to automation
Increasing resource efficiency, productivity, ..
Build on CPS, IoT, digital design, big data,..
Radical/disruptive changes in business models
Blurring the boundaries (products-services), reshuffling value chains
XaaS, 3D Printing & customisation, CRMs, maintenance
added value services
Built on real time information, data analytics, etc.

4. Digital transformation of industry: What is the situation?
Strong digitisation in high tech industries and in some Member States.
But:
Lack of standards and interoperable solutions
New competition from non-EU digital platform owners
Fragmentation of effort in Europe

5. Digitising European Industry: Proposal for four key lines of action
Topic of the Day

6. Action Line 2: Leadership in digital platforms for industry
Appropriate Instruments:
ECSEL Pilot Projects (yearly calls)
PPP Work Programmes, e.g. FoF
I4MS and alike
Different types of platforms
Organisational, technology, operational
Open vs. proprietary
Sector-specific (vertical) vs. cross-cutting (horizontal)
Value creation: "with" the platform and/or "on" the platform
Scale: from "niche" platform to broad consumer platforms
Platforms on which value is created – on and across levels:
Well-being, home, cars (user perspective)
Analytics, design & simulation
Cloud and web applications (free from vendor-lock-in)
Middleware: embedded OSs, IoT, autonomous systems building blocks, Systems of Systems, security frameworks, …
Scale-up our efforts by pan-European collaboration
ICT PPPs: ICT Platforms + large scale demonstrators (IoT, ECSEL, …) (examples: AUTOSAR, FI-Ware, …)
Platforms for the manufacturing sector – from cradle to grave
Platform interoperability & standards in Digital Single Market package
Platforms supported and adopted across MSs and regions (e.g. Virtual Fort Knox, Digital Factory Operating System, …)
Estimated EU-level investment (5yrs):
At least 1 B€ through H2020
Leveraging up to 3B€ in total

7. Convergence of Platforms: Automotive sector example
Online Platforms
dominated by non-EU
Google (search, youtube, gmail, drive, android, …)
Criteo
Facebook
eBay
Autonomous
Fully electric
Amazon
Apple
Blahblahcar
AUTOSAR
Embedded Platforms
EU with significant global market share

8. Google Play Appstore/iTunes
Trying a map
pre-commercial
ROS
View to value of the ecosystem / direct profit to provider
FI-WARE AIOTI
IIRA
RAMI 4.0
IDS
Autosar
ISOBUS
Virtual Fort Knox
Google Brillo
Android/IOS
"365 farmnet" (Claas)
Amazon
Ebay
Google Play Appstore/iTunes
airBnB
Uber MyMuesli
commercial
horizontal
sectorial
General purpose or for a specific sector
Range of users (suppliers/demanders)

9. Platform: What are we talking about?
Not: Stakeholder groups: Industrie 4.0, European Technology Platforms
Not: Technological platforms (Middleware, reference architectures, …)
Instead: Economical multi-sided market platforms creating value by enabling interactions between two or more customer groups (often including the above)
Google: People who search  advertisers
Apple/Android: People who buy a phone  developers of apps
Amazon Marketplace: People who search a product  companies selling products

10. Platforms for connected Factories of the Future, Brussels, 5-6 Oct 2015
Title: Platforms for connected Factories of the Future
5-6 October, 50 attendees
Presentation of platform ideas in the plenary
Structured discussion in working groups
reporting back in plenary
report will be ready by 20th October 2015
Some of you attended

11. What happened in Brussels ? – The talks I
Existing Platform Activities (Chair: Max Lemke, Clemens Zielonka (EC))
Virtual Fort Knox
Thomas Bauernhansl (FhG IPA)
BEinCPPS (incl. FITMAN and FI-Ware)
Sergio Gusmeroli (Politecnico di Milano)
RAMI
Peter Adolphs (Pepperl+Fuchs)
Industrial Data Space
Sören Auer (FhG IAIS)
Role of CPS in manufacturing
Marco Taisch (Politecnico di Milano)
IIRA
Sebastian Haag (TU Darmstadt)
Logistics Platforms
Thorsten Huelsmann (FhG IML)
Knowledge is the next platform
Herman Bruyninckx (KU Leuven)
Platforms in CyProS
Dominic Gorecky (DFKI)
AIOTI: Platforms and Standardisation
Jürgen Heiles (Siemens)
Arrowhead
Jerker Delsing (LTU, Sweden)
Economy Vanguard platforms
Egbert-Jan Sol (TNO)

12. What happened in Brussels ? – The talks II
Industrial Platform Approaches (Chair: Željko Pazin (EFFRA))
Siemens
Bernd Korves
Dassault Systemes
François Bichet
SAP
Uwe Kubach
ATOS
Silvia Castellvi
IBM
Friedrich Vollmar
Bosch-Rexroth
Martin Hankel

13. From the discussions I Goal of platform: reduce complexity
Risks: loss of independence
Opportunity: sharing of knowledge
Who should be involved:
big automation industry (Siemens, ABB, Schneider Honeywell..), IT system integrator, machine manufacturers, SW and application developer

14. From the discussions II
Scope:
1. Network based PLC control system
2. PLM platform
3. Product-Process- Automation platform
Alternative: safety critical operating systems; semantics, ontologies, taxonomies
How to cooperate?
Roles of companies
Guiding function of platforms: Eco-system grow around platforms
Positioning in global context
RAMI has extra requirements for manufacturing
IIRA of the Industrial Internet Consortium is not specific enough, but compatible

15. My take
Several platforms include approaches for reference architectures
Concepts are different with varying level of maturity
Activities in DE appear to be intense: Digital Fort Knox, Industrial Data Space, Reference Architectures RAMI
Also NL, FR, ES , FI, SE and AT are active amongst others
European Manufacturers Association EFFRA is active
Discussion on the ideal platform concept has not been conclusive

16. Back up

17. Where does Europe stand?
Strengths
Professional and vertical markets (products, services, engineering)
E.g. energy, machinery, machine tools, auto, aero, health …
World class research & development hubs
Large EU market (~27% of world ICT market)
Weaknesses
Consumer markets, Internet and web products and services, data platforms' ownership
Structural weaknesses, e.g. no Digital Single Market yet, insufficient investment in R&D&I
Opportunities
High growth "Smart X" and IoT markets
High growth of vertical markets!!
Next digital champions may come from "non-digital" industries

18. Characteristics of platforms
Product or platform?
A product is largely proprietary and under one company’s control
An industry platform is a foundation technology or service that enables an interdependent ecosystem of businesses (Gemini 4.0: development space for business models)
The platform requires complementary innovations (created by the "complementors")
Open or closed?
Some level of openness is necessary to enable complementors (developers) to interact with the platform, e.g.
API's (Application Programming Interface)
SDK (Software Development Kit)
Necessary to go through standardisation?
Some platforms are based on standards, others are not
Alternative: "quasi"-standardisation
by strong market actors or groups of actors
model of the successful on-line platform actors
Standardisation limited to interoperability with other platforms – if at all