The Internet of Things:
Industrie 4.0 vs. the
Industrial Internet
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Kris Bledowski, Ph.D.
Director of Economic Studies
[email protected]
Table 1 – Comparison of Industrie 4.0 and the Industrial Internet Consortium
Industry 4.0
Key authors
Key stakeholders
Taxonomy of revolutions
Support platforms
Sectoral focus
Technological focus
Holistic focus
Geographical focus
Corporate focus
Optimization focus
Standardization focus
Economic approach
Overall business approach
Source(s): MAPI Foundation
German government
Government, academia, business
Four revolutions
Government industrial policy
Industry
Supply chain coordination,
embedded systems, automation,
robots
Hardware
Germany and its companies
SMEs
Production optimization
On agenda
Normative economics
Reactive
The Industrial Internet
Consortium
Large multinationals
Business, academia, government
Three revolutions
Open membership nonprofit
consortium
Manufacturing, energy, transportation,
healthcare, utilities, cities, agriculture
Device communication, data flows,
device controls and integration,
predictive analytics, industrial
automation
Software, hardware, integration
Global marketplace
Companies of all sizes
Asset optimization
Recommendations to standards
organizations
Positive economics
Proactive