M4E #49: The IIRA, Industrial Internet Reference Architecture
On M4E #45 we talked about the German Reference Architecture for Industry 4.0 or RAMI 4.0. However, this is not the only existing approach for a reference architecture in this domain. The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC, now known as Industry Iot Consortium) has created the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA), which provides a standardized blueprint for designing and implementing Industrial Internet systems, enabling interoperability, security, and scalability. Find more in the next video.
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You can read more about IIRA and its current 1.10 version in the following link. You can read there some Frequently Asked Questions as well as downloading the PDF with the specification.
In contrast to RAMI 4.0, mainly proposed from Europe, the IIRA has its origin mainly in American companies (but it includes organisations from all over the world).
You may think that the same work is being performed from two different points of view, but both organisations keep in touch and have searched for alignment between both propositions. You can find out their alignment in the whitepaper wrote by them in 2017.