阀阀 Consulting Keeping an eye on the big picture We have to broaden our view, break down In doing so, four structural areas are compartmentalization, and foster inter- particularly in昀氀uential and relevant operability if we want to make the most to the evaluation of the measures of Industrie 4.0. In technical terms this required for the digitization process. means cross-domain data management, data harvesting via proprietary interfaces, 1. Enterprise resources end-to-end management of cyber-physical (including the digital skills of employees security and creating integrated adminis- and production automation) tration, communication and logistics structures. To achieve increased produc- 2. Organizational structure tivity, we have to abandon established (including goals and strategic alignment structures and rethink every aspect of and organic internal organization) our business models. 3. Information systems 阀阀 o昀昀ers customers access to the (including horizontal and vertical necessary competencies to steer enter- integration as well as data delivery, prises quickly, simply and dynamically processing, storage, and transfer) towards Industrie 4.0 while taking their speci昀椀c needs into account. 4. Corporate culture (including focus on customer bene昀椀t, collaboration, and ongoing quali昀椀cation) Industrie 4.0 maturity Based on this analysis phase by our con- The technological maturity of production sulting partner UNITY, we 昀椀nd out how environments and their components is con昀椀dent employees are in handling IT crucial for the customer’s procedure systems (resources), whether and if so, and development towards Industrie 4.0. how cross-site information exchange As every enterprise has its own current works (organization structure) and whe- status of smart products and de昀椀nes its ther all employees are involved in pro- own Industrie 4.0 goals and, for example, duction optimization (corporate culture). general IT structures, customers need an Once the enterprise’s Industrie 4.0 individual approach of their own. This maturity rating has been established, status can be analyzed for each customer a digitization procedure can be de昀椀ned and then incorporated into the overall for the customer and e昀昀iciently imple- process. mented. An important aspect of this pro- cedure is that the right areas for exami- nation within the enterprise are selected from the outset. This makes it possible to take reliable stock of the current status and to derive appropriate goals. 56�57