Building a Digital Business Technology Platform in the Industry 4.0 Era

Abstract

The current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies is commonly referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, and known as Industry 4.0. Its “pillars” are Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Cognitive Computing (CC), Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud. In such a scenario, to know both technologies and processes supporting digital business is mandatory. In this paper we present our “vision”, i.e., an approach integrating Business Intelligence and Machine Learning and addressed to CIOs and IT leaders in order to build a complete digital business technology platform with generation of linked data knowledge.