Industrie 4.0: An Overview
Keywords:
Industrie 4.0, Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet, Cyber physical system (cps), Smart manufacturing, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of services (IoS)Abstract
In present situation, every industry is trying to expand their arms all around the globe, to make themselves as a
strong competitor in industrial world. Making profit, the industries are also concern with customer satisfaction, product
customization, quality of the products. All these factors should be taken care along with the factor of cost of products. Beside
it, the life cycle of the product is getting shorter and the arms of information and communication technology (ICT) is quickly
covering every sector including manufacturing worldwide. A vision of tomorrows manufacturing will be products and
production systems that communicate with each other effectively and efficiently without direct involvement of men and
machines. Products will find their ways independently and all the required machineries will be interconnected wirelessly.
The heart of this system will be the cyber physical system, which will be connected with subsystems like smart machines,
smart products, smart offices, smart transportation systems, and smart electrical grid to smart factory.
