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More efficient communication: Horizontal and Vertical Corporate Networking

Networking of corporate business units and departments (vertical integration) and between companies (horizontal integration) plays an essential role in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

It results in new value-added networks that offer enhanced cooperation, coordination, and transparency. Digitization is the basis of vertical and horizontal networking. It allows for an efficient exchange of data between internal and external agents, machines, and workpieces, thus enabling virtually all business processes to be outsourced. The result: shifting boundaries between companies and the creation of virtual companies.

The IIoT is shaped by the IoT, cyber-physical systems, and self-optimizing value chains and vertical and horizontal networking of companies is essential to it. Networking guarantees uniform exchange of information and thus efficient cooperation between all the participants of a value-added network and allows for a wide range of applications. Joint administration of machines, programs, and tools is possible as well as the monitoring of a product’s processing status or a machine’s need for maintenance at any location throughout the world.

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Glossary: Industrial Internet of Things
This glossary explains the key terms of Industrial Internet of Things and related topics.
The Industrial Internet of Things
A printer autonomously orders a new cartridge before the old one is empty. A machine sends its operating status to the manufacturer to enable impending failure to be avoided. This is made possible due to the Internet of Things (IoT). But how does it work?
The Value Chain
Production is changing due to ever shorter product life cycles, increased competition, smaller batches and more complex production processes. The result is a world with smart value chains that organize and optimize themselves – within and between companies.
Cyber-Physical Systems
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are the fabric that holds together the IIoT. They are the indispensable technological link for the merging of real and virtual worlds...
Big Data
Date collected by many different electronic devices, but also by sensors or machines flows into a pool of information: This is what we call ''Big Data''. How can we benefit?
Smart Factory
The ''Smart Factory'' features a production which organizes and optimizes itself.
Predictive Maintenance
Predictive Maintenance Avoids Expensive Downtime. To achieve this, systems continuously analyze their status themselves and impending problems are reported in a timely manner.
Demand-driven Production
Demand-driven production allows for flexible and cost-effective production in line with the customer’s wishes.
Machine to Machine (M2M)
The automated exchange of information between mobile devices via the Internet and mobile communications guarantees optimum processes and increases productivity.
Industrial Cloud
The Industrial Cloud is a virtual environment that enables companies to exchange sensitive data securely.
Traceability
Every production step is documented to allow for full traceability of the entire product life. This enables problems to be quickly resolved, or even comple
Cyber Security
Networking opens up completely new possibilities for hackers. Cyber security strategies for data security in the virtual space address this challenge.