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Data center migration, in order to reduce production costs, Adidas in Asia, a large number of sports shoes, however, from the design to the sale of the store takes 18 months. For customers, the long wait process is becoming more and more intolerable. And customers are looking for unique custom products and want to try the latest styles immediately. However, the traditional production model simply can not meet these requirements, so Adidas is creating a "high-speed factory" concept, so that closer to the sales outlets where the production of customized sports shoes.

Similarly, the Japanese machine tool manufacturer Okuma machine tool has also developed a complete milling process, can be 7 x 24 hours of autonomous operation, the whole process can be automatic selection and replacement of cutting tools according to the need to provide raw materials and supplies, without human intervention, the staff needs to execute the application in the field with a tablet computer monitoring application to supervise the operation of the plant.
If you don't change, you eliminate
These examples make us realize that the fourth industrial revolution has arrived, which will change the current global economic model and determine how to create economic value in the future. Like the first three industrial revolutions, the industrial revolution will soon adopt innovation and change technology. These technologies will challenge all previous assumptions and change our perception of manufacturing. It also means that manufacturers and governments need to be prepared for inevitable change, or they will be abandoned by the times.
Today, the direction of manufacturing has been quite different from the first three industrial revolutions. The focus of the three industrial revolution is centralized and mass production, to achieve economies of scale; and the fourth industrial revolution will be based on the mass customization and flexible production base, production place as close as possible demand center.
Manufacturers are no longer just producing and managing inventories, but are committed to building highly integrated supply chains and dynamic adjustments based on the real-time needs of upstream suppliers and consumers. This requires real-time forecasting and corrective actions in the production process. The reason for this transformation and change is that the manufacturer wishes to complete all production processes with minimal or no human intervention throughout the end - to - end production process. The so-called industrial 4 manufacturing model relies heavily on the automation and data exchange between manufacturing technologies, involving information physics systems, Internet of things, cloud computing and big data.
Integration of physical information and network technology
The industrial 4 model aims to turn the factory itself into a computer or an intelligent factory. In each intelligent factory, the modular production process integrates computer technology with the machine through physical information systems, not just for remote control and monitoring. These modular intelligent plant can make their own decisions and how to realize the production of decentralization and automation, and can through the Internet of things and human operators and other smart factories for communication and cooperation, to complete a comprehensive supply chain change.
In fact, this is like the IT industry's use of data centers over the years: virtualization, physical servers, and business process automation technology enable machines to manage themselves to some extent. And we will continue to push these patterns to further develop new capabilities, such as software defined networks (SDN), hybrid and cloud based artificial intelligence (AI).
Data Center Virtualization may now become mainstream, but the industry 4 movement is still alien to many people. Nevertheless, it is growing faster and faster in the global manufacturing industry, and the German government created the term in 2013, and also proposed a comprehensive computerized plan for the country's manufacturing sector. In 2015 the German Prime Minister Merkel introduced the concept of the world economic forum held in Davos, and it is called the 4 industry". At present, the German government invested more than 200 million euros to encourage citizens to carry out practical research in the fields of academia, commerce and government. Germany is not the only country to invest in this kind of investment, and many countries follow suit.