Industry 4.0 in Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Industry 4.0 in Brazil
Received 08th September, 2018; Received in revised form 16th October, 2018; Accepted 12th November, 2018; Published online 31st December, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Vilson Menegon Bristot et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article deals with a new industrial revolution: Industry 4.0. It is an industry concept proposed recently, mid-2011, which began in Germany. This movement encompasses a new way of producing new, highly integrated and automation-intensive digital processes. China and Germany are now emerging as pioneers in the research and deployment process in their industries. They make parts of the new technologies cyber security, internet of things, autonomous robots among others. In Brazil this new model is happening slowly but there are expectations of growth due to the support of financial and multinational institutions installed in the country. Industry 4.0 is already bringing major transformations to industries, products, services and consumer behavior. One of the great current impacts is on the replacement of human labor by artificial intelligence, causing changes in the professions and impelling the emergence of some and adaptations of others. It is the policy of government and society in general, to establish structures and activities that facilitate access to the new concept. The first three industrial revolutions characterized by the technological competition of the development, being that the fourth revolution encompasses the fusion of the physical, digital and biological world.