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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (“Industry 4.0”)

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"&fjlig;BaDXvV" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><strong>By Harun Muhammad <&sol;strong><&sol;p><div class&equals;"iJqoADjF" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Lately&comma; sophistication and consistent specifications significantly increase in the manufacturing processes&period; There is an unavoidable global competition&comma; business unpredictability&comma; and high demand for customized goods&comma; and a short product-cycle that puts huge barriers to manufacturing industries&period; The continuous advancement in manufacturing parts increases the chances of machine breakdown and volatility in the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;google&period;com&sol;search&quest;q&equals;manufacturing&plus;environment&period;&amp&semi;oq&equals;manufacturing&plus;environment&period;&amp&semi;aqs&equals;chrome&period;&period;69i57j0i22i30i457j0i22i30l6&period;4832j0j4&amp&semi;sourceid&equals;chrome&amp&semi;ie&equals;UTF-8">manufacturing environment&period;<&sol;a> As a result of the effect&comma; technological integration becomes inevitable for sustainable manufacturing of products and flexibility within a certain system&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The recent emergence of new technologies has paved a way for many disruptions across the manufacturing industry and all the sectors of industries which require proportionate economic attention for both developed countries and developing country&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"Fr6vywaP" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Because of the nature of the environment&comma; legal framework&comma; and economic policies&comma; the procedure of arrangement of Industry 4&period;0 and its characteristics is different in the developing nations when compared to developed nations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The developed nations seem to have been well prepared for the next industrial revolution when contrasted with developing nations&comma; in which the procedure of arrangement of Industry 4&period;0 was begun before and planned for promoting and social-outcomes&comma; creating nations face institutional&comma; financial related obstructions and look for monetary objectives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Simultaneously&comma; the activity way to deal with the arrangement of Industry 4&period;0 in developing nations&comma; inside which the initiators of this procedure are monetary subjects &lpar;organizations&rpar;&comma; visualizes bigger adaptability and adequacy when contrasted with the order in developed nations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In view of this&comma; speculation is coined that the procedure of arrangement of Industry 4&period;0 in developing nations has its eccentricities and varies from that which is occurring in developed nations&period; The offered theory foreordained the objective of this part&comma; which is a similar investigation of the arrangement of Industry 4&period;0 in developed and developing nations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The first industrial revolution entirely eliminated human work with the introduction of technological innovations of using steam-engines&comma; cast-iron manufacturing&comma; and automation of the textile industry&period; This brought the need for an overall change of industrial infrastructures to accommodate these industrial technologies&period; This occurred from the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century&period; The changes that first industrial came with led to the transportation of manufactured products in steam form and cast-iron&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Like the first industrial revolution&comma; the second industrial revolution came with a lot of industrial transformation which economically enhance industrial growth and productivity&period; This led to the use of electricity for mass production&comma; construction of railways&comma; high-grade steel production&comma; and chemicals&period; The geographical delivery of manufactured products like steel&comma; cast iron&comma; etc&comma; became possible through railways by trains which moved logistics to another level&period; This happened between the beginning of the 19th century to the 20th century&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;06&sol;five-largest-usa-zoos-are-located-within-the-city&sol;">Five Largest  USA Zoo’s  Are Located Within The City<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The third industrial revolution occurred in the beginning 1950s which made <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;britannica&period;com&sol;technology&sol;telecommunication">telecommunications technologies&comma;<&sol;a> digital computers&comma; semiconductors&comma; renewable&comma; and more importantly the internet&period; This brought about web infrastructure globally and increases the quest for automation in manufacturing through the help of digital technologies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fourth industrial revolution which is termed as Industry 4&period;0 is here already in the 21st century&period; Similar to other industrial revolutions&comma; the fourth industrial requires an entire change in the manufacture of products&comma; nature of work&comma; and give rise to the emergence of new technologies like cyber-physical systems&comma; the internet of things&comma; cloud computing&comma; additive manufacturing&comma; big data analytics&comma; and smart manufacturing&period; Powerfully-controlled by strong internet connectivity&comma; industrial automation becomes possible and accomplishing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Symmetrically&comma; like previous industrial revolutions&comma; the fourth industrial revolution which is coined Industry 4&period;0 consists of its own technologies&period; These emerging technologies form the building foundation with which industrial automation using smart systems can become possible in the 21st century&period; These emerging technologies are cyber-physical systems&comma; the Internet of things&comma; cloud computing&comma; and a lot more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Industry 4&period;0<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>World over&comma; the new term &&num;8211&semi; &&num;8216&semi;Industry 4&period;0&&num;8217&semi; is fast-becoming eye-catching and gaining momentum as well&period; This new&comma; disruptive technology has lately discovered its bend of movement and has transformed and reshaped the way things are viewed in the manufacturing segment&comma; which also includes the automotive sector&period; This data-driven business era&comma; after Industry 4&period;0&comma; is seen as a container of Information and Communications Technology &lpar;ICT&rpar;&sol;digitally-enabled technologies&period; Industry 4&period;0 brings the intensity of technology and information and intermeshes it with physical systems to provide a new set of processes&comma; structures&comma; and results&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In recent years&comma; Europe lost around 10&percnt; of its good proportion of industrial domination&comma; taking advantage of that loss&comma; the rising nations figured out how to twofold their offer&comma; representing 40&percnt; of worldwide manufacturing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A couple of years back&comma; Germany began contemplating activities so as to keep up and significantly cultivate its job as a &&num;8220&semi;trailblazer&&num;8221&semi; in the mechanical area&period; Inevitably&comma; the term Industry 4&period;0 was freely presented at the Hanover Trade Fair in 2011&comma; introduced as a major aspect of Germany&&num;8217&semi;s cutting edge system in order to get ready and reinforce the mechanical area with respect to future creation prerequisites&period; From that point forward&comma; Industry 4&period;0 has picked up consideration significance – additionally past the German-talking zone – and has become the glaring topic of discussion during the 2016 World Economic Forum&&num;8217&semi;s plan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Industry 4&period;0 is all about the optimization of smart&comma; flexibility of supply chains&comma; production lines&comma; and distribution models where machines capture and pass more data through machine-to-machine communications and to human operators&period; This targets empowering organizations to make faster&comma; more intelligent decisions&comma; all while limiting costs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The need to comprehend and implement advanced manufacturing methods is the need for great importance&period; In current occasions&comma; Industry 4&period;0 is discussed at different levels&period; The automotive sector of the industry is the key driver for outstanding technological advances is presently looking and investigating approaches to comprehend and internalized the same&period; Industry 4&period;0 has numerous features to it including the impending trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies&comma; cyber-physical systems&comma; the Internet of things&comma; cloud computing&comma; and a lot more&period; It creates what has been called a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;smart factory”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Globally inspired by Germany&comma; some developed and developing countries adopted the idea of Industry 4&period;0 to reflect on their governmental blueprint suchlike &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Smart Manufacturing” in the USA&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Made in China 2025”&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Summary of the White Paper on Manufacturing Industry” from Japan&comma; and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Future Manufacturing” in the UK&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Further&comma; Japan&&num;8217&semi;s corporate environment proposed a new manufacturing dimension called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Industrial Value Chain” similar to German Industry 4&period;0&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ditto to the government of France initiated &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;New Industrial France” within the year 2013 which will foresee the country’s future plans of technological and industrial innovations&period; Coincidently&comma; in South Korean authority recommended a technological shift in manufacturing named &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Manufacturing Innovation 3&period;0 Strategy Implementation Plan” which is relatively similar to Industry 4&period;0&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The interest for Industry 4&period;0 is double&period; First&comma; just because industrial transformation is anticipated apriority&period; The incorporation of ubiquitous sensors and using the internet in smart factories make Industry 4&period;0 inevitable to emerge which is another technological transformation we are witnessing today&period; Thereafter&comma; it gives different chances to organizations and exploration foundations to effectively shape what&&num;8217&semi;s to come&period; Second&comma; the financial effect of this modern transformation should be gigantic&comma; as Industry 4&period;0 guarantees generously expanded operational adequacy just as the advancement of completely new plans of action&comma; administrations&comma; and items&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2020&sol;12&sol;09&sol;kano-commissions-state-anti-corruption-institute&sol;">Kano Commissions State Anti Corruption Institute<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To buttress the above point&comma; the main goals of Industry 4&period;0 belie in flexibility in operations&comma; end-to-end operational maintenance&comma; and internal-upgrading of manufacturing system intelligently&period; This brings human-to-machine interaction integrated into one platform to process&comma; customized&comma; monitor&comma; and deliver in the most efficient and eco-friendly manner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the future article&comma; we shall get to know the enabling technologies for the practical implementation of Industry 4&period;0&comma; technology-driven skills&comma; applications&comma; opportunities&comma; and challenges for developing countries like Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Haruna Inuwa is a researcher that has research-interest in the applications of the Industry 4&period;0 technologies in fields of sustainable energy and manufacturing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>10&sol;12&sol;2020<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; 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