Global Information Architecture for Industrial Automation

To develop a new information model for automation in its different dimensions is a huge challenge with strong influences for standardization in automation. This paper gives only a short motivation and introduction into these requirements and shows that all stakeholders need to be involved to define these requirements and to develop a method to gain the information model layer as the back bone for information integration in multi vendor plants. But the result is promising: a huge improvement in engineering, operation, optimization and management of production processes with much more flexibility during operation