The new challenge: Industry 4.0
The challenge for the fourth industrial revolution is the development of software and analysis systems that convert the deluge of data produced by smart factories into useful and valuable information.
The term Industry 4.0 was coined by the German government to describe the smart factory, a vision of computerized manufacturing with all processes interconnected by the Internet of Things (IOT). It is what we know as the Industrial Internet of Things, I2OT. It is expected that the new concept of industry 4.0 will be able to drive fundamental changes at the same level as the first steam industrial revolution, the mass production of the second and electronics and the proliferation of information technology has characterized the third.
The challenge for the fourth industrial revolution is the development of software and analysis systems that convert the deluge of data produced by smart factories into useful and valuable information.
With industrial automation systems integrating more and more sensors and wireless communications capabilities, factories must be gaining in the ability to gather sufficient data and interoperability between their processes. Although the penetration of wireless networks is currently very low, the adoption will see a strong increase in the coming years. But to achieve real improvements in manufacturing efficiency and flexibility, manufacturers must be able to manage and analyze these large amounts of data, for which the biggest challenge will be on the software side.
