Guideline for Manual Process Discovery in Industrial IoT

Abstract: In industry, the networking and automation of machines through the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to increase, leading to greater digitalization of production processes. Traditionally, business and production processes are controlled, optimized and monitored using business process management methods that require process discovery. However, these methods cannot be fully applied to industrial production processes. Nevertheless, processes in the industry must also be monitored and discovered for this purpose. The aim of this paper is to develop an approach for process discovery methods and to adapt existing process discovery methods for application to industrial processes. The adaptations of classic discovery methods are presented as universally applicable guidelines specifically for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In order to create an optimal process model based on process evaluation, different methods are combined into a standardized discovery approach that is both efficient and cost-effective.