A Complex View of Industry 4.0

Abstract

This article is focused on the importance and influence of Industry 4.0 and consequently the Internet-connected technologies for the creation of value added for organizations and society. The contribution of the article is mainly conceptual. With the development of the Internet, the Internet of things that is central to the new industrial revolution has led to "Industry 4.0." The aim of this article is to synthesize the known theory and practices of Industry 4.0, and to investigate the changes that will result from Industry 4.0 and with the development of the Internet of things.

Perspectives on Manufacturing Automation Under the Digital and Cyber Convergence

“…The concepts attempted under the evolving definitions of Industry 4.0 (Brettel et al 2016;Dutra and Silva 2016;Hermann et al 2016;Roblek et al 2016;DIN SPEC 91345:2016-04 2016 have been mostly motivated by the advantages, and challenged by the risks brought by the digital convergence.…”

“…The use of open Internet instead of closed industrial network broke the walls of industrial facilities and positioned production in the sensible point of being open to IIot (Industrial Internet of Things) and IIoS (Industrial Internet of Services). But this useful progress has also become more vulnerable to risks in terms of security and information overloads (Brettel et al 2016;Roblek et al 2016). Industrial production has finally reached the same position that of social networks interactions and communication: more open to the world, relatively faster, and at the same time, subject to relatively more noise and more security risks.…”

“…The endeavors of evolution on both sides opened a new stage, where change agents in industry and academy share leadership in innovation. That was the case with a set of new production concepts called (by industry) Industry 4.0 (Hermann et al 2016;Moghaddam and Nof 2017b;Roblek et al 2016) and Automation 5.0 (by industry and academy) as related to cyber-physical convergence (Conti et al 2012;Monostori 2014;Rajkumar et al 2010;Nof et al 2015Nof et al , 2017Nof 2017). The full comprehension of the concept (Hermann et al 2016) and its implementation over the legacy systems became one of the great engineering challenges in the current era.…”

Society. Personality. Technologies: Social Paradoxes of Industry 4.0

“…Issues, such as virtual reality in context of Industry 4.0 (Kovar, Mouralova, Ksica, Kroupa, Andrs & Hadas, 2016) [5], moral and ethical aspects of behaviour in virtual networks (Kinnunen, Lindeman, & Verkasalo, 2016) [6], dangers of social networking with an emphasis on gender aspects (Brooks & Longstreet, 2015) [7], effect analysis of Industry 4.0 to higher education (Baygin, Yetis, Karakose & Akin, 2016) [8], standardisation of communication of industrial networks in Industry 4.0 (Halenar, Juhasova & Juhas, 2016) [9], technoethics (Grebenshchikova, 2016) and humanitarian expert assessment of technosciences (Aseeva, 2016) [10,11], new values of the society (Kamensky, 2016) [12], the new di gital Industry 4.0 technological order in the context of the complexity paradigm (Roblek, Meško & Krapež, 2016) [13], are being researched by foreign scholars.…”

Blockchain Enhanced Emission Trading Framework in Fashion Apparel Manufacturing Industry

“…With the high degree of process automation and digitization brought by the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) [1,2], new possibilities to achieve more flexible and efficient productions and services have emerged [3,4]. Smart device computing, cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are the key technologies of Industry 4.0 (e.g., [2,5,6]).…”