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Industry Revolution 4.0 Assignment 1

This document discusses Industry Revolution 4.0, which brings together digital and physical technologies to connect the physical and digital worlds. It defines key principles of Industry 4.0 like interoperability, virtualization, decentralization, and real-time capability. The document also outlines challenges to implementing Industry 4.0 like security, capital requirements, impact on employment, and privacy issues. Finally, it explores how Industry 4.0 could introduce new jobs in areas like data analysis, robotics, and mechanical engineering and transform the role of chemical technologists in the future.

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Industry Revolution 4.0 Assignment 1

This document discusses Industry Revolution 4.0, which brings together digital and physical technologies to connect the physical and digital worlds. It defines key principles of Industry 4.0 like interoperability, virtualization, decentralization, and real-time capability. The document also outlines challenges to implementing Industry 4.0 like security, capital requirements, impact on employment, and privacy issues. Finally, it explores how Industry 4.0 could introduce new jobs in areas like data analysis, robotics, and mechanical engineering and transform the role of chemical technologists in the future.

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Engineering Society

Assignment 1
Industry Revolution 4.0

Name : Nur Anis Alisya Binti Mohd Faizal


Id Number : 55213119063
Lecturer Name : Dr Mohd Zahir Sapawe
Course : BCET Process
Industry Revolution 4.0
Definition
Industry 4.0 is a term often used to refer to the developmental process in the management of
manufacturing and chain production. The term also refers to the fourth industrial revolution.
Industry 4.0 brings together a number of digital and physical advanced technologies to form a
greater physical to digital to physical connection and it can potentially transform the chemicals
industry by promoting strategic growth and streamlining operations. As mentioned before,
greater physical to digital to physical connection also know as cyber-physical system which
aims integration of computation and physical processes. This means that computers and
networks are able to monitor the physical process of manufacturing at a certain process. The
time is ripe for such a transformation in technologies relevant to the chemicals industry such
as the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), Smart Factory , advanced materials,
additive manufacturing, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and robotics together have
reached a level of cost and performance that enables widespread applications. More
importantly, these technologies are now advanced enough that Ithey can integrate with
chemicals companies core conversion and marketing processes to digitally transform
operations and enable smart supply chains and factories as well as new business models. Figure
1 shows the physical to digital to physical leap of Industry 4.0 in Appendix.
Principles
a) Interoperability, interconnection, connectivity
Objects, machines and people need to be able to communicate from the collaboration
through the Internet of Things and the Internet of People by using sensors. This is
collaboration and the ability to have different standards talk to each other so data from
various sources can be leveraged.

b) Virtualization, information transparency and virtual entities


The capability of information systems and cyber-physical systems to simulate and
create virtual copies of physical world elements through the creation of digital models
that are fed by all this data you get through sensors data and contextual data by having
digital manufacturing and plant models.

c) Decentralization, autonomous decisions and autonomy


Decentralized and autonomous decisions are all from the human and decision-making
perspective and not just key in the technologies and cyber-physical systems of Industry
4.0 but also in the human aspects as not all decisions can be fully automated and human
planning, interpretation and decisions are still key and in many cases there is a mix of
semi-autonomous capabilities in collaboration with people and collaborative robots.

d) Real-Time Capability
A intelligent factory requires to be able to gather, store or evaluate real-time
information and create fresh findings-based choices. This is not only restricted to
market studies, but also to inner procedures such as a manufacturing line failure of a
machine. The defect must be identified by smart objects and assignments redelegated
to other working devices. This also contributes greatly to the flexibility and the
optimization of production.

e) Modularity
Modularity is a shift from rigid systems, inflexible models and linear manufacturing for
planning to an environment where changing demands from customers, partners in the
overall supply chain, regulators, market conditions and all other possible elements
causing the need for transformation and flexibility are put in the centre. Hierarchy must
not be used in this modules.
Challenges
Security
Perhaps the foremost difficult side of implementing trade 4.0 techniques is that the IT security
risk. This on-line integration can offer space to security breaches and knowledge leaks. Cyber
thievery should even be place into thought. during this case, the matter is not individual may
even bad name for producer. Therefore, analysis in security is crucial.

Capital

Such transformation will require a huge investment in a new technology that do not sound
cheap. Thus, the risks must be calculated and taken seriously. In addition, such transformation
will require a huge capital, which alienates smaller businesses and might cost their market share
in the future.

Employment

While the implementation of Industry 4.0 worldwide continues early to speculate on


employment circumstances, it is secure to say that employees will need to gain new or a whole
new set of abilities. This may assist to increase employment rates, but it will also alienate a
large-scale worker. In keeping with the industry, the sector of employees whose job may be
repetitive will face a challenge. Different forms of education must be implemented, but for the
older fraction of employees it still does not solve the issue. This is a problem that may take
longer to resolve and will be further analyzed in this study later.

Privacy

This is not only the customer concern, but also the producers. In such an interconnected
industry, producers need to collect and analyze data. To the customer, this might look like a
threat to his privacy. This is not only exclusive to consumers. Small or large companies who
have not shared their data in the past will have to work their way to a more transparent
environment. Bridging the gap between the consumer and the producer will be a huge challenge
for both parties.
The future of chemical technologist

Industry 4.0 might be the peak of technological advancement in manufacturing, but it still
sounds as if machines are taking over the industry. Consequently, it is important to further
analyze this approach in order to be able to draw conclusions on the demographics of labor in
the future. This will help workers of today prepare for a not so far future.

Given the nature of the industry, it will introduce new jobs in big data analysis, robot experts,
and a huge portion of mechanical engineers by improve productivity and reduce risk. Industry
4.0 technologies could help chemicals companies achieve strategic imperatives, specifically in
the areas of business operations and business growth. In an attempt to determine the type of
jobs that Industry 4.0 will introduce or need more labor in. In table 1 below show how industry
4.0 contribute to chemical technologist in future.
Reference
1. Hiromasa Kaneko and Kimito Funatsu, “Database monitoring index for adaptive soft
sensors and the application to industrial process,” AIChE Journal 60, no. 1 (2014): pp.
160–69.
2. The “research and development” transformational play maps to the “engineering”
transformational play, as described in Sniderman, Mahto, and Cotteleer, Industry 4.0
and manufacturing ecosystems.
3. Richert et al. (2016) in Digital Transformation of Engineering Education - Empirical
Insights from Virtual Worlds and Human-Robot-Collaboration.

Appendix

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