Industry 4.0 - What Is It?

Abstract

The industry 4.0 is a new industrial model that characterizes the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This advanced manufacturing model is represented by intelligent, virtual, and digital performance in large-scale industries and emerges as a disruption to the three industrial revolutions that occurred before it. The new industrial model itself includes a factory-wide integrated structure and potential technologies in various areas of industry activity, and these technologies are intrinsic to industry 4.0 design principles, which are also responsible for ensuring the innovative performance of this new industry. With this explanatory context, the objective of this paper is to present what is really industry 4.0, its origin, as well as its main characteristics. In this way, knowing what the Fourth Industrial Revolution is, the readers will be able to better understand the content presented in the next chapters about the diverse potentials of the new industry.

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Smart Industry Sweden – A Collaborative Industrial Graduate School

“…Its conception was the result of a joint effort of five universities with the joint ambition to strengthen the competitiveness and innovativeness of the manufacturing industry in Sweden. As digitalisation continues to transform the fundamental conditions and opportunities for industry, keeping up with these developments requires new knowledge, inspiration and innovation [1,2]. Smart Industry Sweden aims at developing knowledge and understanding that equips the participants and the manufacturing industry at large for the digital transformation -to achieve a smart industry in Sweden.…”

Six-Sigma Reference Model for Industry 4.0 Implementations in Textile SMEs

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