Door: FHI, Federatie van Technologie Branches The World of Industry, Technology and Science (WoTS) is an exceptional opportunity to meet the entire playing field where technology, industry and science overlap. Once every two years the WoTS is the center of technological advancement and innovation.
In support of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance (OI4) and to assist them in reaching their goals, WoTS 2024 gives OI4 the opportunity to present themselves to the world. OI4 takes this opportunity with both hands and is responsible for an entire seminar. This seminar is an in-depth approach to a number of innovative topics. Dive into digital twins, hackathon insights, instrumentation management, standardization and digitalizing supply chains. OI4’s approach guarantees technical knowhow and focus on cooperation.
Ecosystem
Open Industry 4.0 Alliance describes itself as a community of practitioners and implementers. “To make industry 4.0 work, we need an ecosystem of market-leading companies committed to creating compatible solutions and services.”[1]
With this in mind, I speak with Ekrem Yigitdoel, Managing Director of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance. He proudly tells me about his young nonprofit organization and their international goals.
Open Industry 4.0 Alliance was founded in 2019 and from its humble start Ekrem is actively involved. He leads his team since 2021 and shares his mission with me. “From 2021 OI4 made the strategic decision to go big.” With enthusiasm he describes how OI4 developed from one employee to ten employees, in only a couple of years.
Ekrem describes himself as a bridge between technical teams. He emphasizes that this role is not limited to himself, but applies to OI4 as a whole. “OI4 is a bridge, an independent connector between standards and other communities.”
OI4 has grown rapidly and counts more than 100 members. Their goal is to create customer value by implementing existing standards and developing pre-competitive, interoperable Industry 4.0 solutions and services. Ekrem defines OI4’s intention as follows: “To have something which can be used by everybody.”
Seminar
Ekrem gives me a generous introduction to Open Industry 4.0 and its members. What interests me profoundly are his ideas regarding the topics of his seminar.
One of the topics that is covered is the correlation with the Namur standard. Regarding this standard Ekrem has the idea to present process related use cases like instrumentation management and calibration management. OI4 contributes their technical oriented teams that bring software skills and architecture to those who define the standard and the end user. “To bring the standard to life in real projects.” This gives end users practical knowledge about what the standard means for them and their plant. “Which standard exists, and which technology guideline can help to make a standard a reality,” ads Ekrem while he explains to me his ideas for OI4’s seminar. The goal of the seminar is to make it practical. To use real life examples and bring use cases to the WoTS.
Ekrem realizes that plant managers do not have time to think in depth about data structures, about the technology bricks. Plant managers need solutions and the understanding how digital transformation is of value to them. “This is what OI4 does,” says Ekrem. This is what he defines as his mission. To bridge the gap.
The WoTS 2024 is a world in transformation and OI4 is part of a future that for many already exists today. A future of cooperation and open networks.
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