Review Article

Industry 4.0 Disruption and Its Neologisms in Major Industrial Sectors: A State of the Art

Table 1

Transition in industry, operator, and maintenance.

TransitionIndustryOperatorMaintenance

Level 1Industry 1.0Mechanical production, rail road, steam powerOperator 1.0
Manual and dexterous work
Machine tools
Maintenance 1.0Visual inspection

Level 2Industry 2.0
Mass production
Assembly line
Electrical power
Operator 2.0
Assisted work
Numerical control
Maintenance 2.0
Instrument inspection

Level 3Industry 3.0
Automated production
Electronics, computers, and IT
First PLC system
Operator 3.0
Cooperative work
Industrial robots
Maintenance 3.0
Real-time condition monitoring

Level 4Industry 4.0
Fusion of virtual, physical, digital, and biological sphere (CPPS)
Convergence of technologies: AI, IoT, VR/AR, big data, etc.
Operator 4.0
Work-aided human-CPS
Maintenance 4.0Predictive maintenance
Use of big data
Statistical analysis
Smart sensors and IoT
Use of digital twins

IT: information technology, PLC: programmable logic controller, CPPS: cyber-physical production system, AI: artificial intelligence, IoT: Internet of Things, VR: virtual reality, AR: augmented reality, and CPS: cyber-physical system.