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Keywords: Industry 4.0, IO-Link, PLC, distributed computing and control, security, authenticated security,
embedded security, pervasive sensing, distribution and automation
APPLICATION NOTE 5991
REALIZING INDUSTRY 4.0: ESSENTIAL SYSTEM
CONSIDERATIONS
By: Suhel Dhanani, Sr. Principal MTS, Control and Automation Strategic Marketing, Maxim
Integrated
Abstract: This application note examines various system design hurdles to resolve before implementing the
needed infrastructure for Industry 4.0 and looks at some of the key system challenges.
Introduction
Everyone in the automation industry has heard the buzzword of "Industry 4.0," a phrase first coined in
2011 at the Hanover fair. This industrial concept envisions the factories of tomorrow as vastly more
integrated, automated, and flexible. Faster and more efficient, they will churn out the goods desired by a
changing market place.
Industry 4.0, by its very name, implies that we have already gone through three industrial revolutions and
are on the cusp of the fourth (Figure 1).
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