Panel Discussion: Faults and Flaws in the Internet of Things in Manufacturing Systems in Small to Medium Enterprises

Conventionally, the engineering design process has assumed that the design team is able to exercise control over all elements of the design, either directly or indirectly in the case of sub-systems through their specifications. The introduction of Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things means that the design team's ability to have control over all elements of a system is no longer the case, particularly as the actual system configuration may well be being dynamically reconfigured on the shop floor in real-time according to user context and need. Further, the integration of the Internet of Things with elements of Big Data means that information becomes a commodity to be autonomously traded by and between systems which might be commercially prohibited. This short paper will offer comment and generate discussion from the audience.