Understanding Industry 4.0: Technologies, Development Stages, and Key Features
Industry 4.0, driven by IoT, artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing, represents a new manufacturing era; this article outlines its historical stages, nine supporting technologies, three core characteristics, strategic approaches, eight key factors, eight values, and the Chinese adaptation, illustrated through extensive visual content.
The Internet of Things (IoT) combined with manufacturing, artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing have appeared in the public eye and gradually warmed up, pushing the development of manufacturing to a new height that we call Industry 4.0. The diagram below shows the nine major technologies that support and carry Industry 4.0.
Everyone is talking about Industry 4.0, so what stages has industry gone through, what are their characteristics, and what industrial technologies can be called Industry 4.0? Tsinghua University will provide a deep interpretation of Industry 4.0 through 32 pages of images.
Table of Contents
Development Background
Development Process
Interpretation of Industry 4.0
Overall Concept
Technical Foundations
Three Characteristics of Industry 4.0
Two Strategies of Industry 4.0
Eight Key Points of Industry 4.0
Eight Values of Industry 4.0
China’s Version of Industry 4.0
Insights for Development
Summary Section
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