Areas of research for Indystry 4.0 include: IoT (Internet of Things), the convergence of IT and OT, rapid application development, digital twin simulation models, cyber-physical systems, advanced robots and cobots, additive manufacturing, autonomous production, consistent engineering across the entire value chain, thorough data collection and provisioning, horizontal and vertical integration, the cloud, big data analytics, virtual/augmented reality and edge computing amidst a shift of intelligence towards the edge.
Here are 30 topics from the 396 articles found in Web of Sciences, which have the industry 4.0 or The Fourth Industrial Revolution in their title. Please look are there any topic to be interesting to you. Each topic is represented by words and phrases from these articles.