Industry 4.0/IIoT Platforms for manufacturing systems - A systematic review contrasting the scientific and the industrial side (SANER 2026 - Journal First Track )

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Holger Eichelberger, Christian Sauer, Amir Shayan Ahmadian, Christian Kröher

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SANER 2026 Journal First Track

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Fri 20 Mar 2026 15:00 - 15:15 at Megaron Beta - Session 7B - Software Architecture, Dependencies, and Industry Innovation Chair(s): Christian Hammer

Abstract

IIoT, Industry 4.0 or CPPS software platforms are cornerstones of smart manufacturing production systems. Such platforms integrate machines, IIoT and edge devices, realize distributed (management) functionality and provide the basis for user-defined IIoT applications. Individual instances in research and industrial practice do share commonalities while they also differ significantly. We provide a systematic overview of the functionalities and approaches of scientific and industrial IIoT platforms along 16 analysis dimensions, thereby exposing gaps between the focuses of research on IIoT platforms and industrial IIoT platforms in use.

We investigate the following research questions: RQ1 Which IIoT platforms are proposed by research? RQ2 Which application domains and contexts do the proposed IIoT platforms support? RQ3 Which capabilities do the proposed IIoT platforms provide? RQ4 Which are differences and commonalities between industrial and research IIoT platforms?

Holger Eichelberger

University of Hildesheim

Germany

Christian Sauer

University of Hildesheim

Germany

Amir Shayan Ahmadian

University of Koblenz

Germany

Christian Kröher

University of Hildesheim

Germany

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14:00 - 15:30	Session 7B - Software Architecture, Dependencies, and Industry InnovationJournal First Track / Research Track at Megaron Beta Chair(s): Christian Hammer University of Passau

14:00 15m Talk		Detecting and removing bloated dependencies in CommonJS packages Journal First Track Yuxin Liu KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Deepika Tiwari KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Cristian Bogdan KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Benoit Baudry Université de Montréal
14:15 15m Talk		Beyond Lexical: Functional Semantics and Fusion for Precise Architecture Recovery Research Track Chunguang Zhang Southeast University, Bixin Li Southeast University, Yan Xiao Sun Yat-sen University
14:45 15m Talk		Innovating Industry With Research: eknows and Sysparency Journal First Track Verena Geist Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Michael Moser Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Josef Pichler University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Florian Schnitzhofer Sysparency GmbH
15:00 15m Talk		Industry 4.0/IIoT Platforms for manufacturing systems - A systematic review contrasting the scientific and the industrial side Journal First Track Holger Eichelberger University of Hildesheim, Christian Sauer University of Hildesheim, Amir Shayan Ahmadian University of Koblenz, Christian Kröher University of Hildesheim