MIC 4.0

The framework
With currently 126 members from eight European countries, the working group Machines in Construction MiC 4.0 is the largest network organisation and central body in Europe dealing with a uniform digital language and a common understanding of data content and its meaning.

The problem
Every construction equipment manufacturer has its own "digitalisation model".
Users have to create individual solutions themselves, which is time-consuming and costly.

The goal
A cross-manufacturer and cross-industry understanding and comprehensive communication of digital condition, process and quality data along the entire construction process.
"MiC 4.0 conformity" of construction machinery and building material plants in the digital environment
A uniform data format for users and operators of machinery

The solution
Joint development of solutions regarding data, data format and data transmission
Transmission of ISO standard-compliant data
Manufacturer-independent and machine-type-independent data format

A manufacturer-independent and cross-machine understanding of data

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Manufacturers can have their construction equipment validated as "MiC 4.0-compliant" so that a globally standardised understanding of data will be possible for operators of these machines in the future. The members of the MiC 4.0 working group - machine manufacturers, machine operators (including construction companies), telematics providers, software manufacturers and other relevant players - are developing joint agreements and programming instructions for this purpose, the application of which specifies and defines the data that conforms to the ISO 15143-3 standard. They also describe exactly what state a machine is in for a particular command or process. This applies both to the machine status data in accordance with the above-mentioned ISO standard and to the construction process data that will follow in the further course of the work, for which standardised definitions are currently being developed in the respective machine clusters . All machines operated under MiC 4.0 provide the same status description.