Assembly system configuration through Industry 4.0 principles: the expected change in the actual paradigms

Industry 4.0 creates what has been called a "smart factory". The possibility to a wide data collection from industrial processes makes possible to act smart action related to the system changes. Cyber-Physical Systems monitor physical processes and make possible decentralized decisions or even, in the last stage, a self-smart system adaptation. Thanks to the connectivity of the different production resources (machines, work stations, etc.) it is...