Industry 4.0 emphasizes the intelligence of the production process. Industry 4.0 pays more attention to the full integration and organic integration of information networks and industrial production systems to build smart factories, realize intelligent production processes based on the three major integrations in the value chain, and improve production efficiency.
The Industrial Internet focuses more on smart services based on data assets. The core of the Industrial Internet is based on the Internet of Things, using various complex software systems to connect machines with built-in sensors to other machines and people to collect, transmit, process and feed back real-time data, extract data from it and Carry out in-depth analysis to tap the potential of production or service systems in terms of performance improvement and quality improvement, and realize the improvement and optimization of production resource efficiency.
Although the goals of the Industrial Internet and Industry 4.0 are both resource optimization and efficiency improvement, their focus is different. The Industrial Internet focuses on the intelligent management of production equipment such as the Internet, the Internet of Things, and big data, forming an open global industrial network, and fully integrating industry and the Internet in all stages of design, R&D, production, logistics, marketing, and services. .
Industry 4.0, which is defined by the German government, which is known for its industrial control technology, has strong machining process capabilities, professional equipment and working capabilities of various embedded control systems. Germany is very concerned about the intelligent system and virtualization technology of the processing process. profound changes.
The United States, which is good at IT (information technology) technologies such as computers, software, the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, has clearly put forward the industrial Internet specification, focusing on the intelligent interconnection system of machine equipment, data statistical analysis system, and various data Data provides insight into business processes, with a focus on the Internet, big data and cloud computing technologies.
These two different intelligent manufacturing development concepts are actually the difference between two technical routes or two different technical personnel: IT practitioners expect to apply their own IT concepts, Internet thinking and technologies to the industrial environment. Soft and hard, in order to achieve the goal of intelligent manufacturing, this is the Industrial Internet.
OT (operational technology) practitioners expect to drive the application of IT technology through the production system, from hard to soft, which is also the concept of intelligent manufacturing that we usually refer to. Although the execution path and logical thinking are different, the overall goal of the two models is the same, that is, to realize the integration of mobile Internet technology and industrial production, and to establish an intelligent industry.
