

Industry 4.0 increases operational efficiency.įour themes are presented that summarize an Industry 4.0:

The Fourth Industrial Revolution marks the beginning of the Imagination Age. The machines cannot replace the deep expertise but it tend to be more efficient than humans in performing repetitive functions, and the combination of machine learning and computational power allows machines to carry out highly complicated tasks. In essence, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the trend towards automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies and processes which include cyber-physical systems (CPS), IoT, industrial internet of things, cloud computing, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence. The next significant development in communication technologies was the supercomputer, with extensive use of computer and communication technologies in the production process machinery began to abrogate the need for human power. The production of the Z1 computer, which used binary floating-point numbers and Boolean logic, a decade later, was the beginning of more advanced digital developments. The Third Industrial Revolution, also known as the Digital Revolution, occurred in the late 20th century, after the end of the two world wars, resulting from a slowdown of industrialization and technological advancement compared to previous periods. In The Great Reset proposal by the WEF, The Fourth Industrial Revolution is included as a Strategic Intelligence in the solution to rebuild the economy sustainably following the COVID-19 pandemic. Schwab expects this era to be marked by breakthroughs in emerging technologies in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, biotechnology, the internet of things, the industrial internet of things, decentralized consensus, fifth-generation wireless technologies, 3D printing, and fully autonomous vehicles. Schwab includes in this fourth era technologies that combine hardware, software, and biology ( cyber-physical systems), and emphasizes advances in communication and connectivity. This was also subject and title of Schwab's 2016 book. On the 10 October 2016, the Forum announced the opening of its Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. "Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution" was the 2016 theme of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), introduced the phrase to a wider audience in a 2015 article published by Foreign Affairs. The phrase Fourth Industrial Revolution was first introduced by a team of scientists developing a high-tech strategy for the German government. 3.5 Accelerated transition to the knowledge economy.2.4.3 Digital business models and customer access.

