A Roadmap to Industry 4.0: Smart Production, Sharp Business and Sustainable Development PDF by Anand Nayyar by Akshi Kumar

Contents

Preface
Business innovation and industrial intelligence pave the way to a future in which smart factories, intelligent machines, networked processes, and big data are brought together to foster industrial growth and shift the modalities. Industry 4.0 or the industrial Internet of things is the latest catchphrase of technological innovation in manufacturing with the goal to increase productivity in a flexible and efficient manner. This radical transformation which is changing the way in which manufacturers operate is powered by various foundational technology advances. The creation of “smart factories” using the emergent paradigm of Industry 4.0 includes a fully integrated, automated, and optimized production flow largely based on cyber-physical interaction and its configuration to the Internet of things, big data, and cloud computing.

This book intends to demonstrate the synergy between the innovations of Industry 4.0, which help making societies better, saving lives, creating efficiencies, interconnectivity, and ultimately, sustainable. It offers a primer to understand the paradigm shift of industrial revolution from Industry 1.0 to Industry 4.0, that is, the way business models, strategy formulation and implementation, and management approaches for firms operating in the new outlined scenario are willing to achieve sustainable development and/or foster sustainability. The focus is to comprehend the necessary preconditions, development, and technological aspects that conceptually describe this transformation along with the understanding of practices, models, and real-time experiences to achieve a sustainable smart manufacturing technology.

At the same time, the vision is to understand how smart products and Industry 4.0 technologies could generate significant economic, environmental, and social benefits. The book is organized into 11 chapters. The topics are intelligibly explained with sufficient illustrations, examples, and case studies to reinforce the concepts covered within the text. The primary objective is to address significant fundamental what, how, and why within the domain congregating sustainability to overcome the difficult environmental, economic, and social problems of today and tomorrow, such as:

• What is Industry 4.0?
• What is the current status of the implementation of Industry 4.0?
• How to implement Industry 4.0?
• How do firms exploit Internet of things (IoT), big data, and other emerging technologies to improve production and services, aiming at economic, ecological, and social achievements?
• How to accelerate the implementation of Industry 4.0?
• How is Industry 4.0 changing the landscape of society and workplace?
• Why this unison of the virtual and physical world is needed for smart production engineering environments?
• Why smart production is a game-changing new way of product design and manufacturing?
• How Industry 4.0 ensures sustainable consumption and production patterns?

Chapter “si3-Industry: A Sustainable, Intelligent, Innovative, Internet-of-Things Industry” aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the basic concept of Industry 4.0 including its evolution, the principles, building blocks, and the key technologies and concepts around which it is built and is targeted to develop. Chapter “Development of Industry 4.0” explicates allied rudiments of Industry 4.0 such as cross-technological, functional, talent, and business developments from the perspective of real-time scenarios. This chapter also previews detailed knowledge about horizontal-vertical system integration and supply chain that aids in enabling and designing smooth manufacturing process in order to gain more profit. The prospects of sustainable development have started to unfold through the opportunities which Industry 4.0 is providing. It is not viable to discuss about innovation and industry without reference to the three pillars of sustainability, namely the environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

Chapter “Sustainable Development in Industry 4.0” discusses this balance between production and the destruction by examining sustainability development in Industry 4.0. Chapter “Big Data and Analytics in Industry 4.0” probes the significance of big data on Industry 4.0 research and practice followed by an in-depth discussion of the new manufacturing paradigm known as ubiquitous manufacturing in chapter “Ubiquitous Manufacturing in the Age of Industry 4.0: A State-of-the-Art Primer.” Chapter “si3-Industry: Cloud Computing in Industry 4.0” primarily concentrates on the contribution of cloud computing over the various industrial sectors. It discusses the cloud infrastructure for industries and presents various independent as well as integrated cloud models.

Chapter “Modeling and Simulation for Industry 4.0” investigates the trending proliferation of Industry 4.0 and design goals which are greatly facilitated by model-based systems engineering (MBSE). It addresses the need for modeling and simulation in Industry 4.0.

Chapter “Augmented Reality and Industry 4.0” discusses the basics of augmented reality, its history, types, working, applications, and its emergence into the Industry 4.0. It also identifies various technological requirements for augmented reality in Industry 4.0. Chapter “Robotics and Industry 4.0” discusses the role, various challenges, pros and cons, and various applications of robotics and automation in Industry 4.0. In this current time, the use of additive manufacturing’s modern abilities in the domain of IT integration plays a major role in the competitiveness of the industrial domain. Chapter “Additive Manufacturing: Concepts and Technologies” provides a fundamental understanding of the contribution of key elements of additive manufacturing to Industry 4.0. Finally, chapter “Challenges Within the Industry 4.0 Setup” presents the challenges of Industry 4.0 related to the practical aspects, infrastructure requirements, cybersecurity, and business models.

The purpose of this book is to thus confer the preliminaries of the cutting-edge smart technology-driven production maneuver, the Industry 4.0, mainly to determine and verify its potential as a practice which endorses sustainability to ultimately revolutionize the competitiveness of businesses and regions. The highlighting feature of the proposed book is that it will proffer basics to the beginners and at the same time serve as a reference study to advance learners. Also, the book is not country-specific or audience-specific. It will be of interest to academia, industry practitioners, and researchers globally.