INDUSTRY 4.

0:
TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION
Dr Ana Julia Dal Forno

Module 1
Introduction

CURSOS VIRTUAIS DE EXTENSÃO

PROGRAMA DE MOBILIDADE VIRTUAL - UFSC
Team

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA Professor

Reitor Ana Julia Dal Forno

Ubaldo Cesar Balthazar

Monitores

Pró-Reitor de Extensão Luana Magnani

Rogério Cid Bastos Klaus Dieter Kupper

Beatriz Picinin Pinheiro

Secretário de Relações Internacionais

Lincoln Paulo Fernandes Bolsistas

Design Gráfico

Secretário de Educação a Distância Giovanna Aranda dos Santos

Luciano Patrício Souza de Castro Josué Maia Frena

Lais Tomaselli Krause

Secretário de Planejamento e Orçamento Mariane Ronsani Patricio

Fernando Richartz Octávio Barcelos Della Barba

Vídeo

Erika Silva

Franchêscolli Gohlke

Marlon Cardoso Batista

Robner Domenici Esprocati

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Summary

Class 1: Introduction to Industry 4.0.................................................4

Industry 4.0 Historical Context...................................................................... 5

Synonyms......................................................................................................... 7

Definitions........................................................................................................ 8
Class 1:
Introduction to Industry 4.0

In this class we will learn some initial concepts of

Industry 4.0, as well as synonyms and the evolution
of technologies over time.

Welcome to this new era of digitalization, which

has come to make our lives easier!

Also, throughout the course we will see the 9

enabling technologies of industry 4.0, always with the
definitions, examples, advantages and challenges.

For this introduction, see the references used by the

pioneers to write on the topic, among them Schwab,
Kagermann and Hermann. This is a multidisciplinary
topic and with a lot of material, just type on the
internet today in your language (industry 4.0,
industrie 4.0, industria 4.0, 工業 4.0 ...) and see how
many results appear!

So, we prepared a didactic material with figures,

texts, phrases and video suggestions of the best
for you to learn about this Fourth Industrial
Revolution: Industry 4.0 is now!

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1-Class Topic

• Industry 4.0 Historical Context

• Synonym

• Definitions

1.1 INDUSTRY 4.0: HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The world has always been marked by revolutions,

marked by technological advances. The Figure 1
summarizes the four revolutions.

First Industrial Revolution (1760–1840): the

means of production faced changes during
the period that became known as the, with the
invention of the steam engine and its application
in textile production.

Second Industrial Revolution (1850-1945):

the chemical, electrical, oil and steel industries
developed, making progress in the means of
transport and communication, also counting
on the invention of electric energy and the
implementation of production lines.

Third Industrial Revolution (1950–2010): on

the other hand, was marked by the gradual
substitution of analog mechanics for digital, by
the use of microcomputers, the emergence
of the internet and cell phones, as well as, by

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the introduction of new energy sources, the

development of genetic engineering and the
creation of new methods of agriculture.

Figure 1: The
Four Industrial
Revolutions

We are currently in the Fourth Industrial

Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, a
phenomenon that is changing automation
and data exchange on a large scale, as well as
production stages and business models. It relies
on mechanisms such as industrial automation and
the integration of different technologies, including:
Internet of Things (IoT), Autonomous Robots, Cyber
Security, Augmented Reality, Virtual Simulation,
Horizontal and Vertical Integration, Cloud, Big Data,
Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing).

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Figure 2: Industry All of them technologies listed in Figure 2 have

4.0 Technologies
the objective of promoting the digitalization
of industrial activities, greater efficiency and
productivity of processes.

1.2 SYNONYMS

Some terms are associated with Industry 4.0 such

as:

• Smart Factory

• Industrial Internet

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• Fourth Industrial Revolution

• Advanced Manufacturing

• Cyber Physical System

• Smart Production

• Information and Communication Technology

• Industrial Internet Consortium

• Digital Transformation

1.3 DEFINITIONS

The term came up in 2011 in Germany with the

need to create an approach to strengthen the
competitiveness of the country’s manufacturing
industry, promoting the computerization of
the factory. The working group created for
the development of the “Industry 4.0” concept
presented a set of initiatives and recommendations
for implementation to the German government
in October 2012. The members of this group, led
by Dr. Siegfried Dais, vice chairman of the Board
of Directors company management Robert Bosch
Germany and professor Dr. Henning Kagermann,
president of ACATECH (German National Academy
of Sciences and Engineering), are recognized
as the founders of the concept “Industry 4.0”
(KAGERMANN et al., 2013).

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The concept of Industry 4.0 is based on the

integration of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) and depends, mainly, on the
construction of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
to create a digital and smart factory, in order to
make manufacturing more digital, oriented to
information, in a personalized and clean way. The
objective of Industry 4.0 is to build a highly flexible
production model of personalized and digital
products and services, with real-time interactions
between people, products and devices during the
production process (ZHOU et al., 2016).

In short, it is a set of technologies based on the

concepts and the respective interactions between
CPS, the Internet of Things and Big Data, thus
making it a “paperless factory”, facilitating the vision
and decision making by humans of the smart factory.

Industry 4.0 is a set of technological advances

that, integrated to the production process, proposes
agility to the production line, greater efficiency of
processes, cost reduction and mass customization.

They are technologies integrated in the supply chain

that make the process intelligent, autonomous
and capable of producing goods according to the
preferences of its different consumers, without
causing damage to productivity, adding value
when serving in a personalized way and providing
new business models (KAGERMANN et al., 2013;
BLANCHET et al., 2014).

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“Industry 4.0 is a collective term for technologies and

concepts for organizing the value chain (HERMANN et
al.,2015).”

“It promotes the computerization of traditional factories

and their ecosystems towards a connected resource
handling scheme (SHAFIQ et al., 2016).”

“Industry 4.0 came to incorporate digitalization into

industrial activity (CNI, 2020).”

This new revolution is characterized by the

intensive use of digital technologies in order
to manufacture new products quickly, with
an agile response to demand and real-time
optimization of production and the supply
chain, which may cause possible disruptions
in the value chain of companies. companies
(SCHWAB, 2016).

The principles of sector 4.0 are interoperability,

virtualization, decentralization, real-time
capacity, service orientation and modularity
(HERMANN et al., 2015). The Figure 3 shows the
Industry 4.0 Factors.

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Figure 3: Industry
4.0 factors

Do you know the importance of Industry 4.0? See

Figure 4 about Google results.

Figure 4: Industry
4.0 results On
Google Search

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After, Figure 5 summarizes the Industry 4.0

concepts and justify them.

Figure 5: What, why

and how Industry 4.0

Companies are applying the concepts of industry 4.0

to help increase technological intensity, generate
innovation and make them more competitive.

According to Mabkhot et al. (2021), Industry 4.0 is a

multidisciplinary issue. These authors did research
focused on analyzing more than ten thousand
papers about the disciplines correlated with
Industry 4.0 in Scopus database and found that, at
least 14 themes were written about. (see Table 1).

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Table 1 - Disciplines correlated with Industry 4.0 (MABKHOT et al, 2021)

Discipline Papers %

1 Engineering Electrical Electronic 1415 13%

2 Engineering Industrial 1288 12%

3 Engineering Manufacturing 1247 11%

4 Automation Control Systems 1014 9%

Computer Science Information

5 876 8%
Systems

6 Computer Science Theory Methods 832 8%

Computer Science Interdisciplinarity

7 689 6%
Applications

Computer Science Artificial

8 637 6%
Intelligence

9 Telecommunications 635 6%

10 Management 553 5%

Operations Research Management

11 529 5%
Science

12 Engineering Multidisciplinarity 501 5%

13 Business 399 4%

14 Economics 329 3%

TOTAL 10944 100%

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References
BLANCHET et al. INDUSTRY 4.0: The new industrial revolution - How
Europe will succeed. Think Act. Roland Berger: Munique, 2014.

CNI - Confederação Nacional da Indústria. Desafios para a indústria 4.0

no Brasil. Brasília. Portal da Indústria, 2016. Available in: <[Link]
[Link]/publicacoes/2016/8/desafios-para-industria-40-no-brasil/>.
Accessed on April 13, 2021.

KAGERMANN, H.; WAHLSTER, W.; HELBIG, J. Recommendations for

implementing the strategic initiative INDUSTRIE 4.0: Final report
of the Industrie 4.0 Working Group. National Academy of Science and
Engineering, 2013.

MABKHOT, M.; FERREIRA, P.; MAFFEI, A.; PODRŽAJ, P.; MĄDZIEL, M.;
ANTONELLI, D.; LANZETTA, M.; BARATA, J.; BOFFA, E.; FINŽGAR, M.;
PAŚKO, Ł.; MINETOLA, P.; CHELLI, R.; NIKGHADAM-HOJJATI, S.; WANG, X.V.;
PRIARONE, P.C.; LUPI, F.; LITWIN, P.; STADNICKA, D.; LOHSE, N. Mapping
Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies into United Nations Sustainability
Development Goals. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2560. [Link]
su13052560

HERMANN, M.; PENTEK, T.; OTTO, B. Design Principles for Industrie

4.0 Scenarios: A Literature Review. Technische Universität Dortmund.
Dortmund: 2015.

SHAFIQ, S. I. et al. Virtual Engineering Factory: Creating Experience Base

for Industry 4.0. Cybernetics and Systems, v. 47, n. 1–2, p. 32–47, 2016.

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References
SCHWAB, K. The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means and how
to respond. Available in: <[Link]
industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond>. Accessed on April 13,
2021.

ZHOU, L.; BAI, Y.; ZHOU, H. et al. Environmentally friendly textile

production : continuous pretreatment of knitted cotton fabric with
normal temperature plasma and padding. Cellulose, v. 26, n. 11, p. 6943–
6958, 2019. Available in: [Link]

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