Analyzing Manufacturing Data in a Digital Control Room Making Use of Semantic Annotations

The German manufacturing industry carries out new developments towards Industry 4.0, which focus on smart factories and smart assistance systems. In this paper, we present our digital control room for analyzing manufacturing data aiming at optimizing production processes. It builds upon our digital boardroom - a multi-display environment integrating multitouch and multiuser-based annotation dashboards so that decision makers gain insights into and can discuss an organization's data. In particular, our digital control room integrates the OPC UA protocol, semantic annotations, and a time series database to analyze, visualize and interact with machine data. Thereby, it can combine real time, near-real time, and batch processing of machine data and constitutes a holistic business intelligence environment.