ABB AG, Corporate Research, 68526 Ladenburg, Germany.
Sensors (Basel). 2021 Mar 11;21(6):1991. doi: 10.3390/s21061991.
Industrial Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is an emerging approach towards value creation in modern industrial production. The development and implementation of industrial CPS in real-life production are rewarding yet challenging. This paper aims to present a concept to develop, commercialize, operate, and maintain industrial CPS which can motivate the advance of the research and the industrial practice of industrial CPS in the future. We start with defining our understanding of an industrial CPS, specifying the components and key technological aspects of the industrial CPS, as well as explaining the alignment with existing work such as Industrie 4.0 concepts, followed by several use cases of industrial CPS in practice. The roles of each component and key technological aspect are described and the differences between traditional industrial systems and industrial CPS are elaborated. The multidisciplinary nature of industrial CPS leads to challenges when developing such systems, and we present a detailed description of several major sub-challenges that are key to the long-term sustainability of industrial CPS design. Since the research of industrial CPS is still emerging, we also discuss existing approaches and novel solutions to overcome these sub-challenges. These insights will help researchers and industrial practitioners to develop and commercialize industrial CPS.
工业网络物理系统（CPS）是现代工业生产中创造价值的一种新兴方法。在实际生产中开发和实施工业 CPS 既有回报又极具挑战。本文旨在提出一个开发、商业化、运营和维护工业 CPS 的概念，这将激励未来工业 CPS 的研究和工业实践的发展。我们首先定义了我们对工业 CPS 的理解，指定了工业 CPS 的组件和关键技术方面，并解释了与 Industrie 4.0 概念等现有工作的一致性，随后介绍了工业 CPS 在实践中的几个用例。描述了每个组件和关键技术方面的作用，并阐述了传统工业系统与工业 CPS 的区别。工业 CPS 的多学科性质在开发此类系统时带来了挑战，我们详细描述了几个关键的子挑战，这些挑战是工业 CPS 设计长期可持续性的关键。由于工业 CPS 的研究仍在兴起，我们还讨论了现有方法和新颖的解决方案，以克服这些子挑战。这些见解将帮助研究人员和工业从业者开发和商业化工业 CPS。
