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                                       The term “Industry 4.0” has already entered our everyday
                                       lexicon in many spheres: from journalism and applied
                                       science to vocational training and industry.




        Concepts such as “smart factory”, “Internet of Things”,   industries. A source of irresistible inspiration to
        “cyber physical systems” and “machine to machine”       even the most cynical industry players, the Industry
        are no longer considered science fiction and we may     4.0 concept has brought the ideas of complex
        soon be meeting the reality behind these phrases        computerization and production automation, inter-
        in metalworking plant processes. Yet there remains      object data exchange, and decision-making processes
        a world of misinterpretation and miscomprehension       to formerly unattainable levels. “Industry 4.0”
        between terminology and implementation. What does       epitomizes the fourth industrial revolution.
        Industry 4.0 signify in practical terms and how do we   The first industrial revolution saw the transition from
        apply and optimize Industry 4.0-related technologies in   manual labor to machine production and the second
        our manufacturing processes?                            industrial revolution – the technological revolution –
                                                                transformed mass production. The third industrial
        Industrial Revolutions                                  revolution replaced analog with digital electronics,
        Originally, “Industry 4.0” (“Industrie 4.0”) was a German   also causing radical changes not only in
        governmental initiative to digitize manufacturing       manufacturing but in everyday life.























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