Page 3 - Booklet on Workshop on Industry4. with CIMCO

Workshop on Industry 4.0 using CIMCO products

1. Introduction to Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 refers to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution that focuses heavily on inter-
connectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. ... That's where Industry
4.0 comes into play.

Industry 4.0 is the cyber-physical transformation of manufacturing. The name is inspired by
Germany's Industrie 4.0, a government initiative to promote connected manufacturing and a
digital convergence between industry, businesses and other processes. Industry 4.0 is the
fourth industrial revolution, though there is disagreement over how to define the revolutions.

The first industrial revolution

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This took place at the end of the 18 century. It was marked by mechanization
made possible by steam and water power in the industry. What before pro-
duced threads on simple spinning wheels, the mechanized version
achieved eight times the volume in the same time. Steam power was already
known. The use of it for industrial purposes was the greatest breakthrough
for increasing human productivity.

The second industrial revolution
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This revolution occurred at the start of the 20 century. This was aided by
electricity & was marked by mass production, assembly lines, & divisions of
labor. Henry Ford (1863-1947) took the idea of mass production from a
slaughterhouse in Chicago: The pigs hung from conveyor belts & each butcher
performed only a part of the task of butchering the animal. Henry Ford car-
ried over these principles into automobile production & drastically altered it
in the process. While before one station assembled an entire automobile, now the vehicles
were produced in partial steps on the conveyor belt - significantly faster & at lower cost.

The third industrial revolution :

This revolution was around the start of the 1970s. It came through the use
of computers to further automate machines & production processes. Since
the introduction of these technologies, we are now able to automate an
entire production process - without human assistance. Known examples of
this are robots that perform programmed sequences without human inter-
vention.

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