Our world has been greatly transformed by Industry 4.0, almost in all aspects.
Industry 4.0 is commonly referred to as the fourth industrial revolution. Industry 4.0 fosters what has been called a "smart factory". Within modular structured smart factories, cyber-physical systems monitor physical processes, create a virtual copy of the physical world and make decentralized decisions.
During 4.0 era, the technology progresses have fuzzed the borders between the digital and physical worlds, and given rise to the Industrial Internet of Things. As a result, today's factories require intelligent interconnected systems linked to cloud services and big data analysis to drive greater manufacturing efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness.
Even now, in this advanced information age, the manufacturing environments are still very demanding forf, thus, robust and thoroughly tested solutions are vital to these industrial automation applications.