Industry 4.0 is not the fourth Industrial Revolution

IC754VGI06MTD This has actually been my view for many years. The concept of Industry 4.0, which was first thrown out by SAP, is actually a service for the marketing of its products. For example, at that time, SAP just launched HANA enterprise database, so SAP’s description of Industry 4.0 focuses on “big data”, “data mining” and other applications; Siemens had by then reintegrated the “Botu” platform to implement the movement of digital modules controlled by a virtual PLC, the so-called “software/hardware in the loop”. After the success of the virtual debugging system MCD, Siemens immediately proposed the “digital twin” concept. After the “Industry 4.0” hit the world, it integrated CPS, IoT and other applications into Siemens’ Industry 4.0 concept to the market.

While some of these concepts and applications are good, they are definitely not revolutionary enough.

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IC754VGI06MTD The fourth Industrial Revolution should be the large-scale application of artificial intelligence

“We can use the ‘scare level’ to assess whether the fourth Industrial Revolution is currently underway. If we were to time-travel Watt to 1930s America, he would probably be frightened by the bright nightlife and the cars. If Edison was to travel to the 1990s, he would probably be surprised by all kinds of electronic products and the Internet, although he was a great inventor in the electrical age, but after the time can only be an ordinary person in the information age; If Alan were to travel back in time, he would immediately understand the workings of the information society in which we now live, and within a few months he would once again IC754VGI06MTD be at the top of the information world. So if Turing’s jaw is to be shocked, a more disruptive technological and industrial revolution is needed, and the real fourth Industrial revolution has not yet begun.” — 2021, Say Goodbye to Industry 4.0

The biggest flaw of the “Industry 4.0 theory” (let’s call it a theory of manufacturing development) is its lack of vision for the ongoing fourth industrial revolution and technological revolution. Only see the current mature network technology, artificial intelligence, new materials, new processes and other technologies and theories that may subvert modern manufacturing lack imagination. — 2021, Say Goodbye to Industry 4.0