Title: From cyber-physical systems to Industry 4.0: make future manufacturing become possible

Authors: Keliang Zhou; Taigang Liu; Ling Liang

Addresses: College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, China ' College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, China ' College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, China

Abstract: Recently, 'Industry 4.0' has become the supporting force in the manufacturing field. From CPS to Industry 4.0, they are leading a new round of industrial revolution. To meet the fourth industrial revolution, USA, European countries, Japan, South Korea and China have presented different versions of the so-called 'Industry 4.0' strategies respectively, which are different from each other in the content, but their common goal is to achieve manufacturing structural adjustment and restructuring and upgrading, to seize a place for future manufacturing, to provide users with better service. What is more, we summarised the five major trends of the future manufacturing. Then, we introduce some enabling technologies about Industry 4.0, among them, CPS plays a key role in the Industry 4.0 factory. Based on the customer to business (C2B) mode, we regard everything as a service, and propose a structure of Industry 4.0. Finally, the automotive industry as an example, we make a brief introduction about an Industry 4.0 case. [Received 15 December 2015; Revised 30 May 2016; Accepted 30 May 2016]

Keywords: cyber-physical systems; future manufacturing; CPS; Industry 4.0; internet of things; IoT; cyber-physical production systems; CPPS; network security; intelligent manufacturing; customer to business; C2B; services; automotive manufacturing; automobile industry.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMR.2016.078251

International Journal of Manufacturing Research, 2016 Vol.11 No.2, pp.167 - 188

Received: 18 Jan 2016
Accepted: 30 May 2016

Published online: 09 Aug 2016 *

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