2. Industry 4.0

When it was first introduced in 2010, the term industry 4.0 had numerous synonyms in France and abroad: smart factory, "factory of the future", connected factory, etc., and no universal definition. A study carried out by the German association of digital companies Bitkom in 2014 noted, in its Industry 4.0 presentation document , no fewer than 104 different definitions, characterizations and descriptions of this concept. From 2017 onwards, international or national bodies published...