Smart manufacturing technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), digital twins, digital threads, manufacturing execution systems (MES), advanced analytics, cobots and more all very powerful technologies. The synergies among these technologies make them so much greater than the sum of their parts. All of them [technologies related to Industry 4.0] are helping transform the manufacturing industries back into an economic powerhouse.
