Virtual Engineering Object / Virtual Engineering Process: A specialized form of Cyber Physical System for Industrie 4.0

This paper reviews the theories, parallels and variances between Virtual Engineering Object (VEO) / Virtual Engineering Process (VEP) and Cyber Physical System (CPS). VEO and VEP is an experience based knowledge representation of engineering objects and processes respectively. Cyber–physical systems (CPSs) are the next generation of engineered systems in which computing, communication, and control technologies are tightly integrated. The analysis of basic concepts and implementation method proves that VEO/VEP is a specialized form of CPS and it can play a vital role in the structure building of Industry 4.0. Integration of the two models may result in intelligent machines and advanced analytics.