Open Industry 4.0 Alliance Community in Italy – better together! The OI4 Alliance provides interoperable solutions from shop-floor to top-floor

E. Yigitdöl, R. Dunkel

OPEN INDUSTRY 4.0 ALLIANCE

The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance acts as a partnership association of leading industrial companies that pragmatically participate in the implementation of cross-vendor industry 4.0 solutions and services for manufacturing plants and automated warehouses. 14 of their 100+ members are represented at at the SPS Italia - including Beckhoff, Bürkert, Dunkermotoren, Endress+Hauser, Festo, Hilscher, IFM, Kübler, Murr Elektronik, Pepperl & Fuchs, SICK, Siemens, WAGO and Weidmüller. In industry and technology working groups, industry experts develop, use cases, and implement them technically based on the OI4 reference architecture. These solutions, along with implementation guides, are shared within the community and made available outside the Alliance. The Alliance is an international implementation organization which was launched in April 2019.