A sustainable, long-term development of Industrie 4.0 can only be successful if it is based on
general, stable concepts which are extensively neutral in terms of technology. In reverse, no
innovation is possible if mapping to the currently available technologies is not stipulated by
standards. Against this background it appears expedient for the description of the conceptual
stipulations in the standards to be clearly separated from the technological stipulations. It must
be mentioned once again that both types of stipulation are necessary.