Introduction: Scope and Relevance of this Research

This introduction starts a research journey toward a more comprehensive and indepth understanding of the concept of industrial cyber-physical systems (CPS) with the motivation to contribute to the advancement of Industry 4.0 from vision to application. It provides the overall context of this dissertation (cf. Section 1.1) and introduces the reader to the research gap and the objectives of all activities within this book (cf. Section 1.2). Subsequently, in Section 1.3, the research questions and the research design aligned to answer those are presented.