Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)

Digitalization is the driver of innovation in petroleum and renewables projects. As illustrated below, it can apply in three different areas of the company:

Industrie 4.0 is the name of the German Futur of Manufacturing Program, launched by Angela Merkel at Hannover Fair in 2014.
The objectives of this digital program are to maintain the position of the German Industry despite the competition of actors like China, and to strengthen their economy in light of the 2008 financial crisis.

This post reminds the history of Industrie 4.0 and explains the key features supporting this technology to deploy internet of things (IOT) in practice. In conclusion it shares good practices to avoid misunderstanding in using the uncorrect English spelling Industry 4.0.

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) definition, history and explanations.

Future of Manufacturing to fuel economic growth Since 2010, some developed countries released Future of manufacturing programs in order to relocate at home industrial activities with the goal to fuel a sustainable growth and create jobs. Each one of these countries branded its Future of manufacturing in its own way: – France – Usine du Futur […]

Cyber Physical Systems and Industry Digitalization  Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) refers to all the technologies enabling computerized resources and physical objects to interact together in a coordinated, reliable and continuous manner for performing multiple given tasks. These CPS may combine hardware and software from physic, biology, engineering and information technologies. The first examples of CPS appeared in […]

Definition Future of Manufacturing refers to all the technologies such as industrial digitalization or internet of the things (IoT) to interconnect all the industrial processes required to design, produce and deliver goods, equipment or entire systems to a client in mobilizing optimized resources wherever they could be located and regardless where they stand in the […]