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Industry 4.0 An Overview
Industry 4.0 An Overview
Industry 4.0 An Overview
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Introducing Industry 4.0
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Social media (2): Interlinked Enterprises
App Technologies
Co-chair Co-chair
Henning Kagermann Siegfried Dais
Information
transparency
Industry 4.0
Decentralize
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assistance
Technical
47% of Americans
have a high risk of
further digitalization
and automation of
their workplace.
The impact on employees is not jet quantifiable. Some see the digitalization as part of the future job market, others fear the
loss of jobs.
Industry 4.0 requires comprehensive digitization of the
horizontal and vertical value chains
Some of improvements may result from the digitization of processes and value chains:
Results of a study on Industry 4.0 – Opportunities and Challenges of the Industrial Internet, based
on a survey of 235 German industrial companies by the market research institution TNS Emnid.
Source: Klaus Helmrich, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, Hannover Messe 2015
An example of use case in combining industry 4.0 with lean production
Source: Kolberg, D., & Zühlke, D. (2015). Lean automation enabled by industry 4.0 technologies. IFAC-
PapersOnLine, 48(3), 1870-1875.
• From the perspective of Bosch and its customers, we
emphasize the great significance of Industry 4.0
applications for the entire industry of producing
companies, including logistics departments.
Dr Daniel Hug • The great potential of Industry 4.0 lies in data and
Bosch Software Innovations GmbH, particularly in the efficient use of newly gained
Head of Vertical Industry & Logistics opportunities.
Meysam Maleki
maleki@fct.unl.pt