Industry 4.0 A Smart Factory: An Overview
Industry 4.0 is an industrial transformation towards a smart factory. Industry 4.0 brings a revolution throughout the world in Industrial sector by integration of several processes together in manufacturing. A smart industry 4.0 is a bundled structure which comprises of data, people, processes, services, systems. Industry 4.0 is a next level which makes the industry a smart factory by including the IOT (internet of things), Cloud Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, System Integration, Big Data analytics, IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology) together. In this paper, an overview of industry 4.0 a smart factory is presented that how industry 4.0 is implemented and also issues in implementing a smart industry 4.0 with the help of nine digital industrial technologies and its applications and to study the industrial transformation towards the smart industry 4.0.