Industrial Automation and Control systems have matured into a stable infrastructure model
that has been kept fundamentally unchanged, using discrete embedded systems (such as …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a common buzzword these days. Even though it is
somewhat artificial and marketing-inspired, it correctly reflects that the evolution of …

A trend, accompanying the change of automation systems and their architectures, is the
virtualization of software components. Virtualization strengthens platform-independent …

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) is growing at an exponential rate generating massive
amounts of industrial data. This data must be leveraged to support business and operational …

Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) are envisioned as next-generation adaptive
production systems combining modern production techniques with the latest information …

Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) are the fundamental components in the next-
generation factories. Due to massive heterogeneous data generated from large-scale …

Recently, the industries converge to the integration of the industry 4.0 paradigm to keep
responding to the variable market demands. This integration is realized by the adoption of …

The context of the fourth industrial revolution brings companies numerous challenges.
Agility, flexibility, and responsiveness are necessary characteristics in this business …

Fourth Industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) has entirely reshaped the landscape of the global
world from both enterprise and academia aspect. In the mean-time Cyber-Physical System …

Industry 4.0 is moving towards deployment using 5G as one of the main underlying
communication infrastructures. Thus, the vision of the Industry of the future is getting more …