Digital Technology as the key Factor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Industry 4.0 | |
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( Volume 3 Issue 3,March 2017 ) OPEN ACCESS | |
Author(s): | |
Isak Karabegovic | |
Abstract: | |
In the past ten years digital technology has significantly contributed to changing the lives of people throughout the world, because its application enabled a rapid transformation of all aspects of human life, especially fast transformations in the design, manufacturing, operation and maintenance of production systems, thus causing a sudden jump in productivity. We can easily say that fourth industrial revolution happened, which can be labeled in a variety of ways such as "Intelligent factory", "Smart industry" or "Advance manufacturing". In the near future (as expected by 2025), machinery, appliances, robots and people must be mutually linked, so that they can work together and communicate with each other via internet platforms (IOT). Information systems will create a virtual copy of the physical world, which will allow the action from one place to change a realistic process of industrial production. It will cause decentralization of decision-making, so that the production processes can make decisions independently, and only in the event of a fault or conflicting objectives decisions will be delegated to a higher level. The application of information and communication technology (ICT) enabled us to have information on the basis of which we can perform the integration of all systems at all stages of the creation of new products, both within the production process and outside the system (referring to the logistics and supply). Application of digital technologies in the production processes in the industry creates flexible automation, maximum adjustment of production to rapid change in the direction of customer demands, increased rate of production, better quality and increased productivity. All these advantages are realized with the implementation of the following technologies: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Internet, Simulations, Artificial Intelligence, and System Integration, representing support technologies such as Additive manufacturing, Autonomous Machines and Human-Machine Integration. The paper gives an overview of the technological revolutions that have so far occurred worldwide, and factors of changes in society meaning demographic, socio-economic and technological, with the emphasis on digital technologies that bring changes in all segments of society and production processes. The implementation of digital technology, robot technology and all the advanced technologies enable us to produce intelligent automation and intelligent factories, thus creating a society in which wealth is created through strengthening the global competitiveness, to serve the regulation of social issues in society. |
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