Standardisation connecting the initiative 'Industry 4.0' and Service Life Cycle

In the manufacturing domain there are two major challenges in the future, innovation via integration enabling improved decision making and servitization, the design and use of innovative services. The German Industry 4.0 initiative is aiming to support the integration and virtualisation of manufacturing design and production processes using the internet in infrastructure to create smart products. These smart products are the basis for creating smart services. This transition from product to service is the second challenge for manufacturing firms but this servitization allows the companies to extend their business. In this paper a conceptual proposal is presented to integrate the two challenges and to identify standards for interoparation via the main interfaces.