3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
Smart IoT Integration
Smart Industry is a new stage of organization and control of the entire value chain of the
lifecycle of products. This lifecycle will increasingly be determined by individual customer
preferences and will extend from the idea, the development and production, the delivery of the
product to the end client, the recycling stage, and all relevant services.
All members of the working group agreed that their business environment is increasing in
complexity year by year. Having the right product at the right time is becoming more and more
complex. Customers are constantly challenging companies and require them to be more and
more flexible.
Smart Industry bears the potential to revolutionize supply chains. We are unable to imagine
today what the possibilities will be over the coming years. We believe that we are just at the
beginning of this process.
The driver for this revolution is the Internet. The Internet has transformed our world in a way
that hardly any other technology has done in the past. Information is at our fingertips and
accessible anytime from everywhere. This was the foundation for social media.
Web 2.0 made it possible for mankind to be connected in real time in a many-to-many format.
Now we will be able to add things or objects to this network. These things will become
autonomous actors. We refer to this evolution commonly as the Internet of Things or Internet
of Services. It is important to understand that beyond the connection of objects we will be able
to add an application layer that will allow computers to recognize and sort the contextual
importance of information.
The basis for all of this is the availability of all relevant information in real time through the
connection (network) of all instances (machines, people) which are part of the value chain. In
addition, the system and the “system of systems” will have the capability to determine the
optimum flow of value creation through the analysis of the data.
Through the connection of people, objects and systems, dynamic self-organizing cross
organizational value chains will emerge. These value chains will be able to optimize in terms of
costs, availability and resource consumption. We are moving from a centralized to a distributed
form of plant planning and control. We are not referring to new production techniques i.e.
additive manufacturing. We are referring to a totally new organizational framework. Innovative
production techniques will be integrated into this new framework but they do not represent
the point of origin.
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