Climb aboard Automotive 4.0

摘要

The automotive segment is often consided to be associated solely with cars and related applications. It is, however, much bigger than that; encompassing buses, trucks, industrial vehicles, mobile machinery, forklifts, automated cleaning machines and emergency vehicles. Currently, almost everyone is talking about Industry 4.0 - the fourth industrial revolution. Industry 4.0 provides for what some call a 'smart factory'. Over the loT, cyber-physical systems can communicate and cooperate in real time, not only with each other, but also with humans. And, via the Internet of Services, both internal and pan-organisational services are offered and used by members of the supply chain.