Paradigms for database-centric application interfaces

The database-centric approach for industrial applications in the fourth industrial revolution has been proposed as a viable possibility in view of new trends towards distributed, autonomic, and intelligent control systems. In particular, with the RMAS architecture and its compliance to the new directions envisioned by the IEC 61499 standard, a suitable advanced instance of the database-centric paradigm was achieved. In this work, the focus is on the aspects that concern the impact of the database-centric paradigm in the realm of design of human-machine and machine-to-machine interfaces. A discussion of the implications and an example are provided in order to let the industrial informatics community start with an assessment of the proposed vision.