personalization/customization of products.closed-loop data models and control systems and.a shift from a central industrial control system to one where smart products define the production steps,.the bridging of the physical and digital world through cyber-physical systems, enabled by Industrial IoT ,.even more automation than in the third industrial revolution,.Industry 4.0 is often used interchangeably with the notion of the fourth industrial revolution. Industry 4.0 is a vision that evolved from an initiative to make the German manufacturing industry more competitive (‘Industrie 4.0’) to a globally adopted term. Industry 4.0 has been defined as “a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, including cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing and cognitive computing and creating the smart factory”. These are the same capabilities we know from the Industrial Internet of Things like remote monitoring or track and trace, to mention two.Īt the very core Industry 4.0 includes the (partial) transfer of autonomy and autonomous decisions to cyber-physical systems and machines, leveraging information systems. Cyber-physical systems create the capabilities needed for smart factories. This way, products and means of production get networked and can ‘communicate’, enabling new ways of production, value creation, and real-time optimization. Industry 4.0 initiatives and evolutions around the world.Beyond the automation pyramid: disrupted application levels.Technical assistance and service orientation.Decentralization, autonomous decisions and autonomy.Information transparency, virtualization and virtual entities.Interoperability, interconnection, connectivity.The automation pyramid and new business models in Industry 4.0.Industrie 4.0 principles: horizontal and vertical integration.Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0).Industry 4.0 building blocks: the (Industrial) Internet of Things.Cyber-physical systems: the building blocks of Industry 4.0.Industry 4.0 strategy and implementation.
Data and optimization across the value chain.Industry 4.0: the essence explained in a nutshell.