Industry 4.0

Abstract

The initiatives “Industry 4.0” (Germany) and “Made in China 2025” (China) stand for smart production of smart products. Enabling the realizations of these concepts, the Intelligent Web (Web 2.0) in general and the Internet of Things (IoT) in particular are needed as infrastructural basis. Intelligent production and transportation systems are utilized in production, services, storage facilities and transport. Characteristic to them is the use of information technology, steering their automated activities or the actions of their users to enable their autonomous operation. Since these systems and their subsystems and components are accessible and/or obtain their knowledge from the Web, they are often termed Cyber Physical Systems (CPS).