MONAT

Industrie 4.0 envisages new concepts for flexible production. Starting with the planning tasks, the commercial order processing up to the production-technical execution, tasks can be negotiated automatically and carried out cooperatively. This requires flexible communication between a wide variety of tools – from office-based tools in the ERP environment to real-time communication of components in the shop floor. The project MONAT inves­tigates Software Defined Network (SDN) technology. Furthermore, MONAT will investigate the con­sis­tency of the developed configuration solutions for real-time communication modules in industrial automation, including Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) approaches on the one hand and the use of the same configu­ration solutions in the pure ICT area, and implement them on the basis of demonstrators.