page_title: Smart manufacturing
section_title: Impact of Industry 4.0
hierarchical_section_title: Smart manufacturing / Impact of Industry 4.0
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of Industry 4.0, showing the four "industrial revolutions" with a brief English description. See also File:Industry 4.0 NoText.png for a version without text. Español: Ilustración que muestra las cuatro principales etapas de la "Revolución Industrial" iniciada en el siglo XVIII, con una breve descripción en inglés de cada una de ellas. (1st) Mecanización, energía hidráulica, y máquina de vapor&#160;; (2nd) Producción en serie, línea de ensamblaje, y electricidad&#160;; (3rd) Automatización industrial e informática&#160;; (4th) Sistema ciber-físico.
context_page_description: Smart manufacturing is a broad category of manufacturing that employs computer-integrated manufacturing, high levels of adaptability and rapid design changes, digital information technology, and more flexible technical workforce training. Other goals sometimes include fast changes in production levels based on demand, optimization of the supply chain, efficient production and recyclability. In this concept, as smart factory has interoperable systems, multi-scale dynamic modelling and simulation, intelligent automation, strong cyber security, and networked sensors.
  The broad definition of smart manufacturing covers many different technologies. Some of the key technologies in the smart manufacturing movement include big data processing capabilities, industrial connectivity devices and services, and advanced robotics.
context_section_description: Industry 4.0 is a project in the high-tech strategy of the German government that promotes the computerization of traditional industries such as manufacturing. The goal is the intelligent factory (Smart Factory) that is characterized by adaptability, resource efficiency, and ergonomics, as well as the integration of customers and business partners in business and value processes. Its technological foundation consists of cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things.
  This kind of "intelligent manufacturing" makes a great use of: 
  Wireless connections, both during product assembly and long-distance interactions with them;
  Last generation sensors, distributed along the supply chain and the same products (Internet of things)
  Elaboration of a great amount of data to control all phases of construction, distribution and usage of a good.
  European Roadmap "Factories of the Future" and German one "Industrie 4.0″ illustrate several of the action lines to undertake and the related benefits. Some examples are:
  Advanced manufacturing processes and rapid prototyping will make possible for each customer to order one-of-a-kind product without significant cost increase.
  Collaborative Virtual Factory (VF) platforms will drastically reduce cost and time associated to new product design and engineering of the production process, by exploiting complete simulation and virtual testing throughout the Product Lifecycle.
  Advanced Human-Machine interaction (HMI) and augmented reality (AR) devices will help increasing safety in production plants and reducing physical demand to workers (whose age has an increasing trend).
  Machine learning will be fundamental to optimize the production processes, both for reducing lead times and reducing the energy consumption.
  Cyber-physical systems and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication will allow to gather and share real-time data from the shop floor in order to reduce down and idle times by conducting extremely effective predictive maintenance.
caption: Industrial revolutions and future view
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