Decentralized Network Building Change in Large Manufacturing Companies towards Industry 4.0

In complex industrial ecosystems together with an increasing global competition, success depends on a complete value chain transformation. The use of Industry 4.0 standards is therefore gradually emerging in many industries to ensure significantly higher factory productivity, flexibility, and efficiency. However, selected methodology and results are required to be studied to fully understand the digital transformation as well as its characteristics. This research presents a system conversion study, from centralized to decentralized systems, using epidemic membership protocols on a large manufacturing company towards Industry 4.0.The system conversion shows that the epidemic membership protocols provide an ability to rewrite the structure of the overlay topology. The experimental results are presented in two categories: (1) convergence speed and (2) accuracy of the epidemic applications. These provide the information for the performance guarantee of the global aggregate computation. The expectation of this paper is to present a preliminary study focusing on the system conversion methodology in the context of Industry 4.0. There are several recent publications based on Industry 4.0; however, nothing has been done to address any methodologies applied in Industry 4.0 or their simulation results.