Industry 4.0 is a term from practice and stands for a project of the German federal government. In science, the influence of technology on classic production and the networking of people and machines is roughly examined, including the integration of technologies such as Sensors Technologies, 3D printing and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the course of my research, I examined two current studies on Industry 4.0 and would like to summarize and compare them below. Study 1: Bitkom In the first selected study, Bitkom (2019) surveyed over 550 industrial companies of various sizes on the subject of Industry 4.0. Over half of the companies surveyed stated that Industry 4.0 was being used for the first time. 21% of the companies surveyed are also planning to expand this. A special field of application is the linking of machines with the Internet in order to enable a link and a targeted data analysis.…
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