Smart factory: Is the Industrial Revolution here yet?
The manufacturing industry is becoming real fast in many progressing regions of the world. In the next few years, the manufacturing industry may just become fully ‘smart’ with the evolution of smarter products and 4.0 technological advancements. Industrial revolution will be there when virtual online advancements will connect to the physical world within one industry. Technologists and business industries are anticipating Internet of Things to be incorporated in the production line. To successfully put into effect the advancement of technologies in the manufacturing industry, the industrialists need to optimize their performance so that the IoT can be effectively put to use. A fully connected and flexible system is what the smart factory pictures with its advanced automation technology . Presently, the manufacturing industry is in the evolution state which is far from the documented state of the complete smart factory. It is tapping into multiple features as co...