manufacturing of variants

Regarding the concept „Industry 4.0“ some analogies to Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) can be detected. Industry 4.0 is using technical progress in manufacturing as well as in IT while in the CIM frameworks the interdependencies between the business management and the engineering issues are analyzed more in-depth. When designing general or industry-specific Industry 4.0 solutions it is worthwhile to consider insights and experience collected with former CIM projects.