In the last five years, many industrial production entities in Europe have started strategic work towards a digital transformation into the fourth industrial revolution termed Industry 4.0. The concept of zero-defects in the management of quality is one of the main benefits deriving from the implementation of Industry 4.0, both in the digitalization of production processes and digitalization of the product quality.
2020 Copyright for this paper by its authors. “Security Implications of Interoperability”: This paper investigates the relationship between interoperability and system security. This is mainly an optimisation problem, since making a system interoperable means that some APIs need to be exposed, which can potentially open the system to malicious attacks.