Contents I. Introduction
Automated systems permeate our everyday lives, and can be found in all sorts of devices. The development from simple devices to “smart devices” has long been in full swing. For example, while first simple mobile phones could only make phone calls and send text messages, a smartphone nowadays can be used to surf the internet and to perform various actions for which a computer was previously needed. Through cloud computing and the entry of the internet into industrial production, task distribution no longer works via a central control unit, but decentrally via “autonomous, powerful microcomputers” which communicate wirelessly or via the internet. At this point, the physical world and the virtual world are moving closer together. At the intersection of these two worlds “cyber-physical systems” (CPS) are located. Some of the aspects covered by CPS in production are: intelligent machines, storage systems from equipment to logistics, marketing and production per se [1].
