08/12/2016
* By Fernando Pedro de Moraes, professor at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Campinas campus
Digital technologies and their enormous growth have completely eliminated barriers and boundaries in the “PHYSICAL” and “DIGITAL” worlds. The Internet of Things, intelligent databases and interconnected systems now form the most CONNECTED, PRACTICAL and EVOLVED form of activities in a value chain.
This has great significance. See: Reduced costs and with increasingly differentiated efficiencies (performance improvement); New business model for the industrial sector (Creation of smarter products and services); Higher speed in production structures.
So, the products are smart and connected, communicating with business partners (users, suppliers, customers, etc.) in new digital business models, where they allow interaction with intelligent databases to offer differentiated services. An example can be associated with products in a specific production line that automatically tells a plant's equipment how these products should be industrialized, processed or assembled. Industry 4.0 has an intelligence between the connected systems and devices, allowing to create a totally intelligent “VALUE CHAIN” digitally, supported by the Internet of Things, here within the industrial structures.
Thus, some trends will change the lives of industries and all business partners involved in this reality. Industry based on production systems with cyber intelligence, relating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), database systems management (BIG DATA) and physical structures. The use of ICTs and BIG DATES, together with the support of the Internet of Things (IoT - Internet of Things) will transform traditional structures into smart factories. Factory equipment talking to products, and other equipment, providing management information in real time and contributing to significant changes throughout the industrial structure.
Understanding the evolution of industrial structures - Timeline
Industry 1.0 - 18th Century - Mechanical Production - Food based on water and steam.
Industry 2.0 - 20th Century - Mass Production - Structured in the model of division of labor and the feeding was by electric energy.
Industry 3.0 - After the 70s - Production with Automation and Implementation of Electronics and Technologies.
Industry 4.0 - Currently - The Digital Industry - Use of cognitive cyber production systems.
Technologies of Industry 4.0
Several technologies underpin Industry 4.0. Below are some of these technologies associated with industry 4.0.
The structures of Cloud Computing
Structures based on Virtualization of Equipment and Systems connected and mediated with servers of integrated systems services (data on demand), allowing for new models and levels of security, responsiveness and storage, scalability and flexibility of use. An example is the GOOGLE tool, Google Analytics, which, in real time, allows information to be obtained from huge volumes of data.
Internet of Things (Internet of Things - IoT)
IoT is the interaction of intelligent objects (things) integrated with the diverse activities of human beings (networking of physical objects, environments, vehicles and machines through electronic devices with data collection and exchange).
big data
Bid Data is a data analysis structure in a totally complex way, which is based on intelligent information management processes.
All this integration of connected technologies allows us to create new forms of automated interaction. Intelligent sensor networks and their interconnected components control the mechanical activities of industrial structures and their relationships in a more intelligent and dynamic production. Thus, social media leads new collaborative ways that go beyond the organizational structure and information and communication technologies increasingly allow new models and new supports to apply the decision-making process in real time.
* Fernando Pedro de Moraes is a professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Campinas campus. Master in Communication and Technology by UNIP. Specialist in Science and Technology by FUNDAP.
This has great significance. See: Reduced costs and with increasingly differentiated efficiencies (performance improvement); New business model for the industrial sector (Creation of smarter products and services); Higher speed in production structures.
So, the products are smart and connected, communicating with business partners (users, suppliers, customers, etc.) in new digital business models, where they allow interaction with intelligent databases to offer differentiated services. An example can be associated with products in a specific production line that automatically tells a plant's equipment how these products should be industrialized, processed or assembled. Industry 4.0 has an intelligence between the connected systems and devices, allowing to create a totally intelligent “VALUE CHAIN” digitally, supported by the Internet of Things, here within the industrial structures.
Thus, some trends will change the lives of industries and all business partners involved in this reality. Industry based on production systems with cyber intelligence, relating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), database systems management (BIG DATA) and physical structures. The use of ICTs and BIG DATES, together with the support of the Internet of Things (IoT - Internet of Things) will transform traditional structures into smart factories. Factory equipment talking to products, and other equipment, providing management information in real time and contributing to significant changes throughout the industrial structure.
Understanding the evolution of industrial structures - Timeline
Industry 1.0 - 18th Century - Mechanical Production - Food based on water and steam.
Industry 2.0 - 20th Century - Mass Production - Structured in the model of division of labor and the feeding was by electric energy.
Industry 3.0 - After the 70s - Production with Automation and Implementation of Electronics and Technologies.
Industry 4.0 - Currently - The Digital Industry - Use of cognitive cyber production systems.
Technologies of Industry 4.0
Several technologies underpin Industry 4.0. Below are some of these technologies associated with industry 4.0.
The structures of Cloud Computing
Structures based on Virtualization of Equipment and Systems connected and mediated with servers of integrated systems services (data on demand), allowing for new models and levels of security, responsiveness and storage, scalability and flexibility of use. An example is the GOOGLE tool, Google Analytics, which, in real time, allows information to be obtained from huge volumes of data.
Internet of Things (Internet of Things - IoT)
IoT is the interaction of intelligent objects (things) integrated with the diverse activities of human beings (networking of physical objects, environments, vehicles and machines through electronic devices with data collection and exchange).
big data
Bid Data is a data analysis structure in a totally complex way, which is based on intelligent information management processes.
All this integration of connected technologies allows us to create new forms of automated interaction. Intelligent sensor networks and their interconnected components control the mechanical activities of industrial structures and their relationships in a more intelligent and dynamic production. Thus, social media leads new collaborative ways that go beyond the organizational structure and information and communication technologies increasingly allow new models and new supports to apply the decision-making process in real time.
* Fernando Pedro de Moraes is a professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Campinas campus. Master in Communication and Technology by UNIP. Specialist in Science and Technology by FUNDAP.
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