“Industry 4.0” — Towards opportunities and challenges of implementation

Abstract

In the paper the concept of "Industry 4.0", which is based on self-organizing production systems, is shown. The attention is paid to the automation which is "an installation" that provides conditions for a human cooperating with the system as a client, service technician and programmer. The problem of competence understood as a competence of the person and as the power of position, and creating more and more independence of the system, independent from the human, way of his functioning, is also presented. Moreover, the comparison of the assumptions of automation and contemporary solutions is done.