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Technical documentation in the
age of “Industry 4.0”
Achim Steinacker, intelligent views
17.09.2015 Semantics2015, Wien

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Outline
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• The company
• Industry 4.0
• „Semantic technologies as key enabler“
• Influence for documentation processes
• Use case
• Starting position
• Requirements
• Solution
• Summary / Lessons learned

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Products in the age of industry 4.0
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• More versions of the same product
• Lot size 1
• Cyber-Physical systems
• Semantic product memory
• Semantic technolgies as key
technology for the approach
• Semantic layers to connect product
properties with business and
manufacturing processes

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Documentation in the age of industry 4.0
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• Individual products need individual
documentations
• Eventually documentation moves from
hierarchical structures to topic oriented
models.
• Metadata can not only be used for the
publication process
• Topic oriented documentation models lilke
DITA are supported by XML-Editors like
Oxygen

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Processes in the age of industry 4.0
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• „Actionable“ semantic models
• Integration is only half way
• Integration level „knows“ what has to
happen if changes occur
• Service descriptions for
orchestration of individual product
demands
• Vocabulary has to be controlled in
all systems

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Semantic approach for industry 4.0

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Use case: semiconductor company

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Starting position
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• Increased version diversity
• Many systems involved
during development of
new products
• Requirement engineering
• Source-Code repositories
• PDM-systems
• FrameMaker, LaTex, Word…
• File systems
• No support for
• Reuse
• Change-Management
• Traceability

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Project goals
• Reuse of information
• In all systems
• Usable for engineer and end user documentation
• Traceability and visualization of dependencies
• Consequences of change
• Cockpit for project status and progress
• Simulation of changes in late phase of the project
• State of the project
• Many different users and roles for the system
• Detailed access rights model is necessary

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Basic decisions
• Every documentation has to move to structured XML
• DITA
• Integration of the data is not enough
• Changes, versions and workflows have to be implemented
• Existing systems will not be changed or replaced
• A semantic layer providing access rights and workflow
support ist needed
• Formalize the process of development and documentation
• Harmonize the vocabulary

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Generation of
documentation
templates

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Web-based
frontend

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The application
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18November 2014 tekom, TD4, Vernetzte Dokumentation
The application II

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Lessons learned
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• Industry 4.0 scenarios have already arrived in the daily business of
companies
• Semantic models are the (only) way to integrate the structure of different
systems
• Systems involved in the product design, development and
documentation process are able to provide their data at least in
XML (ReqIf, DITA)
• Technical integration is „easy“
• What does „approved“ mean?, What is a version?
• Genereric model allows easy reuse

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Questions?
Dr. Achim Steinacker
intelligent views gmbh
Julius-Reiber-Str. 17
64293 Darmstadt
Tel. + 49 (0) 61 51-50 06-119
Fax + 49 (0) 61 51-50 06-138
a.steinacker@i-views.de
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