Supporting Digital Production, Product Lifecycle and Supply Chain Management in Industry 4.0 by the Arrowhead Framework - a Survey

While Industry 4.0 targets are theoretically set from various aspects, the approaches for covering some of its key areas are heterogeneous. The main pillars for Productive4.0 a European research initiative with the industrial drive - are Digital Production, Product Lifecycle Management and Supply Chain Management. These are also key areas for Industry 4.0, and so far handled with heterogeneous approaches, toolsets and success, indeed. This paper has two aims. First, to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art concepts regarding these three areas, filtered through the actual industrial requirements. Second, to survey the Arrowhead Framework concerning these areas, and suggest a homogeneous approach that can support not only the main vision of these three domains but the actual design-time and operational-time tasks needed to make the vision of Industry 4.0 reality.