Towards the Shop Floor App Ecosystem: Using the Semantic Web for Gluing Together Apps into Mashups

Any upcoming industrial revolution will rely on the ability to harness software as the nervous system of future production environments. This paper proposes an app ecosystem as the potential key enabler of industry digitization and argues for the need of semantic web technologies as primary enablers for app interoperability. We shortly discuss how we envision the emergence of semantically annotated apps on the manufacturing shop floor. Subsequently, we demonstrate how a loosely coupled mashup of apps can easily form a full stack internet-of-things solution that covers sensor data from its origin toward its visualization in a (mobile) web browser.