What is industry 4.0?

Industry 4.0 is one of the new concept in the modern world, and it is being discussed in many areas, specially in manufacturing. But, what exactly is industry 4.0?

In simple way, it is the new form collaboration between machine and the product it product. Machine are now more connected with the product and better understand the production process. Wireless connection between devices and machine in a factory are the core change of this new revolution, which means even a phone can be used to order certain task to the machine. This strong communication between a factory, help to understand a machine, how the product wand to be produced and its optimum process. For example, Simens has develop a bottle manufacturing factory, where each bottle used RFID tag to store information for the machine to tell the machine, how to process in every step. In each step the bottle communicate with the machine, and tells from which liquid to other ingredients should be used for the finishing product.

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For the customer, it means quick access to tailor made product in cheap price and for industry a highly produces mass product for end users. This will bring more efficiency and low cost maintenance for the factory. Moreover, there are research going on the concept of cyber physical control of factory by Princeton University. This will help a factory to predict used of its resource like energy use. For example, understating how much cooling it need for the factory and save energy when possible. Big data and IOT are its primary tools to make this happen.