Utilizing an Enterprise Architecture Framework for Model-Based Industrial Systems Engineering

Abstract

Accompanied by the fourth industrial revolution, current and future manufacturing systems are undergoing a major transformation. Driven by the integration of cyber-physical systems and the thereby resulting autonomy of its single components, organizing the interplay of its physical counterparts becomes more and more challenging. In order to structure and realize such an industrial system in a collaborative manner, the Reference Architecture Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0) has been developed. However, although being widely accepted by the community, the standardized architecture is missing actual industrial applications. A major reason for this issue might be missing specifications in the standard itself, hindering the mutual development of such a critical infrastructure at the right level of detail. Thus, in order to counteract the mentioned problem, this work delineates the alignment of RAMI 4.0 with a well-established framework for specifying enterprise architectures, named The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). By coalescing the system development concepts of RAMI 4.0 and TOGAF, both of the approaches could benefit from each other. The result is thereby evaluated with an actual industrial case study.