One of the earliest promotion of industry 4.0 is Germany, and its manufacturing sector adapts fast in automotive and related companies such as Mercedes, Siemens, Infineon.
With respect to Automotive Industry: connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles and OTA Update and Configurations are some of the considerations in Industry 4.0 which is coined by German OEMs.@
The degree of automation and implementation of concepts such as JiT is much higher in the automotive industry. Furhter, as mentioned before, the car as the product undergoes constant technological innovation and represents a cyber-physical system with a capabilites to collect and process data. However, main suppliers of "Industry 4.0 technology" to automotive OEMs are mechanical and plant engineering as well as electrical and ICT engineering industries. Those supply the OEMs with both "Industry 4.0 capable" car parts but also production equipment. Therefore, those industries also contribute to the implementation of Industry 4.0 within automotive OEMs.
The automotive sector in germany is very strong in doing research. Due to the high degree of automation within the production line they are already very similar with this topic and the problems resulting by a very rigid fully automized production (complexity, long planning times...)
Nevertheless I think Industry 4.0 will get even more important for small sized companies who are doing many different products types and don't have the capability to handle the complexity of a fully automized production of different product types in small lot sizes with Industry 3.0 technologies.
Industry 4.0 encourages automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies as well as in production technology. India’s first Smart factory is being set up at Bengaluru. This smart factory powered by data exchange in manufacturing and the Internet of Things (IoT).