Industry continues to develop with ever new technologies from day to day.
Industry 4.0 is now the most complex technology, with technologies such as smart manufacturing, IoT, big data, cloud, artificial intelligence, robotics and many others ...
On this subpage we will give you the meaning and connection of these technologies with Industry 4.0.
For more information we have incorporated links to the websites of our classmates on the respective topic.
IoT:
- The IoT (Internet of Things) or the Internet of Things is central to the networking of machines, various systems and the information system.
The term includes objects and technologies connected to the Internet, and in a broader sense everything that can be connected to the Internet to receive or send data.
The IoT optimizes production with great accuracy and offers interesting economic advantages thanks to the data collected.
Smart Manufacturing (intelligent production):
The goal of smart manufacturing is to make production better, more efficiently and more intelligently.
Big data:
Big Data describes a data record that is so extensive that he rises human analysis and even the IT tools.
Big Data plays a central role in information processing and today serves as an information system in an industry.
Because now the data storage in the industries is too great to process them.
This technology has carried out to create a new job profile: data scientist. The goal of a data scientist is to develop better and better algorithms to extract relevant and usable data from big data platforms.
Cloud
The cloud consists of numerous technologies that encourage us to use the computing and storage performance of distant computer servers.
Instead of having the IT infrastructure locally, it can be outsourced in whole or in part using the cloud.
Very often the cost rationalization and consumption-based billing are much more cheap than owning and maintaining IT hardware in your own house.
The cloud fits perfectly with the new needs and constraints caused by Industry 4.0, and enables it to accompany the development of the information system with a needs -based investment.
The cloud is the right answer to the need to save and process huge amounts of data, especially with the help of big data.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is no longer about the summary of data, as we know it about dashboards and graphics today.
It is about evaluating all this data, to derive trends from it and predict the behavior of the data over time:
That is what artificial intelligence offers in industry today, and therefore artificial intelligence plays an important role in Industry 4.0.
And many other ...
As we have shown in the course of this article, many of the youngest technical innovations are the heartstick of the revolution that drives industry worldwide.
Some of these innovations have not yet shown their full potential, and the technologies that will come in the next few years offer support for the growing demand of industrial sector in intelligence, rationalization, economy and automation.
There are many technologies that deserve special attention, such as:
- The area of nano- and biotechnology
- Drones
- 3D and 4D printing
- Techniques for combining physical with the digital world (NFC, RFID, IBEACON)