Oracle: connected industrial manufacturing with Industry 4.0

Manufacturing global takes a closer look at how industry 4.0 is driving connectivity within industrial manufacturing. Industry 4.0 turning what happened into what will happen’ Via connectivity, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, industry 4.0 is creating autonomous manufacturing capabilities in the industry, with new technology driving innovation and forcing market disruption. As a result of IoT, AI, and cloud computing technology industry 4.0 is driving the transformation of product innovation, customer and field service, smart factories and value chain visibility. While the physical product still remains important, for industrial manufacturers mastering the use of data and understanding the lifecycle of a product is becoming increasingly important. Oracle highlights that with this understanding, tremendous business opportunities and improvements can be made when product lifecycle management process is enabled with the digital thread and business management is expanded into the customer’s operational domain.