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Industry 4.0 "The smart industry"

The Industry 4.0 concept (also referred to as "Intelligent

Industry") corresponds to a new way of organizing the means of
production. It is intended to launch a large number of "smart
factories" capable of greater adaptability to the needs and
production processes, as well as a more efficient allocation of
resources, opening the way to a "Fourth Industrial Revolution".
This concept was born in Germany, belongs to German
industrial policies and seeks to ensure that technologies such as
Big Data, Cloud Computing or 3D printing, among others, are
applied in companies, especially in small and medium-sized
companies. .
According to a study conducted by Accenture in January
2015, this new industrial revolution could increase the global
economy by 14.2 billion dollars over the next 15 years. The
technological bases on which this new industrial revolution is
based are: the Internet of Things, the Cyber-Physical Systems,
the Internet of Services, the Maker Culture and the Factory 4.0.
But Industry 4.0 is more than that, emphasizing the idea of a
growing and adequate digitalization and cooperative
coordination in all productive units of the economy. The so-
called Industry 4.0 implies, to a large extent, a degree of
automation and digitization of the factories.
Resorting to the Internet and Cyber-Physical Systems, that is,
using communication networks capable of controlling physical
objects, you can modernize the manufacturing plants to
transform them into intelligent factories characterized by a
continuous and instantaneous intercommunication between
the different work stations that make up the own production,
supply, and packing and dispatch chains.
"The fourth industrial revolution"
A revolution that seeks to unite the technological advances of
the second industrial revolution with the advances that took
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place in the digital revolution, that is, it implies the fusion of mass
production, through machines and processes of all kinds with
the great advance in development of software, internet,
networks and systems, advances that had a strong impact on
the global industry and that have been refined over the years
becoming increasingly complex and increasingly applied to
industrial processes in order to optimize them and to reduce
manufacturing costs.

Nowadays the challenge of the 4.0 industry is to unite all these

technologies and apply them to a greater extent to the global
industry, a challenge that still has many gaps to open and ways
to go, even though industries such as electronics, Food and
beverages have already begun to be pioneers, it is expected
a greater assimilation in these and it is expected that in
industries such as automotive have a rapid adoption of this
trend. However, these technologies are not yet sufficiently
accessible in terms of price and infrastructure, facts that hinder
rapid application and assimilation by companies, not to
mention that some of these technologies are still under
development which makes it almost impossible its application
in the industry.
However, it is a matter of time before industry 4.0 is fully
implemented in the global industry and shows us the
advantages that a communicated world can offer us and with
the capacity to perceive the environment that surrounds it.
Modern information and communication technologies will help
predict the possibilities of increasing productivity, quality and
flexibility in the manufacturing industry and thus understand the
advantages within the competition. The use of sensors provides
the machines and tools of the plant, a self-diagnostic capacity
of their current situation that allows remote control ensuring
both their possible withdrawal from service and their better
integration into the global production system.
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Industry 4.0 is based on a set of key technologies that,

combined, make possible a new industrial model.
Mobile internet and M2M communication are the basis of IoT.
They allow exchanging information between systems and
products, capture data, coordinate systems and deploy
remote services. At the same time, this increased connectivity
leads to the need to protect industrial systems from security
threats.
The analysis of data (Big Data) will identify patterns and
interdependencies, find inefficiencies and even predict future
events. The applications and infrastructures offered in the cloud
(Cloud Computing) and paid for by use (as a service) will make
possible the massive flow of data and its analysis with
unprecedented flexibility.
Finally A huge movement is taking place around the industries
and the technology that is leading to the emergence of a new
factory concept known as the digital factory. In this digital
factory will play a fundamental role a series of modern
technologies, all encompassing within the technologies of
Information and
Communications, very innovative and ground breaking such as
3D printers, Big Data, Cloud Computing, cyberphysical systems
and humanoid robots, among others.
In addition, most likely, all these technologies will be in constant
communication and interaction with each other and with
external elements of control, through the 5th generation mobile
communications technologies.
The factories will communicate with each other and with users,
to increase efficiency and allow the manufacture of products
Customizable with enormous efficiency. So important will be the
technology or technologies of communications employed as
the effort to adopt open standards that facilitate
Free development of products and applications for the new
digital industries.