English | EN Optimal, Wasteless Relationships Between Machines u0026amp; Humans Alike
Jan 30, 2014
They seem to be two worlds apart: the Internet of Things for individuals on the one hand (e.g. Fitbit, Google Glass, a smart fridge for shopping purposes or an intelligent thermostat in the Smart Grid), and on the other hand the heavy-duty Industrial Internet, for instance Things That Spin: turbines and engines jam-packed with sensors for the sake of predictive maintenance to avoid unplanned downtime.
However, by systematically exploring the gigantic diversity in between, we now start to see that both in fact belong to the same world. The whole space from the IoT for private and professional consumers to General Electric’s Industrial Internet and Germany’s Industrie 4.0 gradually will be dressed up with functionalities that bring machines and mankind more intimately together, in Bosch’s vision of the Internet of Things & Services if you wish. The focus will be on the intertwined supply and demand needs of manufacturers, vendors as well as private and professional consumers. Cross-domain and cross-industry innovation already are starting to florisch, and the customer is actually part of your company.
Maintaining Optimal, Wasteless Relations
The notion of predictive maintenance comprises both man and machine if we emphasize the action of maintaining. Then we see what really is at stake, namely maintaining optimal, wasteless relations with people, customers, citizens, machines, devices, systems, and systems of systems, large and small. In traditional, mixed, and completely new data-rich chains of events and interdependencies of sorts.
Understood in this way, the originally artifact related term of “predictive maintenance” deliberately includes human relations as well, as we are building out this new bond between the people IoT and the Industrial Internet. Via services based on and adjacent to digital artifacts: physical and virtual, i.e. hardware, firmware, software, and apps. Welcome to the enchanted reality of our Coding and Programming Age in which “engineerability” rules as never before!
The basic I/O system (Input/Output) for both machine and human related “predictive maintenance” is the technically and functionally adequate combination of what we tend to call Systems of Record and Systems of Engagement. Such productive and innovation fostering mix of basically people centric Recording & Engagement is depicted at the start of this article for several machines, devices and industries. It gracefully embraces the IoT for private and professional individuals, the Industrial Internet (General Electric), the Internet of Things & Services (Bosch), and the German Industrie 4.0 initiative.
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