8. Industrial Systems

Smart manufacturing, industry 4.0 concepts and models for new product development and testing are examined here. Smart manufacturing is the evolution of the manufacturing environment where the integration of information, technology and innovation drive a better, faster and more efficient production system operating at the highest level of quality and output. Smart manufacturing is an operating model where machines interact to one another and share data at every point. It is the use of intelligence at a fully-integrated level to allow companies to connect the customers’ needs to supply chain to the production equipment and to the operators. Reference architectures provide common and consistent definitions in the system of interest, its decompositions, and design patterns, and provide a common terminology to discuss the specification of implementations so that options may be compared. Smart Grid Architecture Model, (SGAM), is presented as a generic model for different architecture models as RAMI 4.0. The V-model is a general reference model for systems design and validation suitable for presenting specification phases and associated test phases. The individual tests-acceptance tests, system tests and integration tests-are executed against the corresponding specification documents, user requirements and system specifications or technical specifications.