A Reference Architecture for Data Quality in Smart Manufacturing

The i4Q Project aims to provide a complete set of solutions consisting of IoT-based Reliable Industrial Data Services (RIDS), the so-called 22 i4Q Solutions, able to manage the huge amount of industrial data coming from cheap cost-effective, smart, and small size interconnected factory devices for supporting manufacturing online monitoring and control. This papers presents the reference architecture used to guide the development of IoT-based Reliable Industrial Data Services for Manufacturing Quality Control. Based on industry standards and known best practices, the reference architecture adopts a three-tiered architectural model to represent the main system architectural components, and provides four different architectural viewpoints to address business, usage, functional, and implementation concerns.