Big data challenges and opportunities in the hype of Industry 4.0

Maqbool Khan, Xiaotong Wu, Xiaolong Xu, Wanchun Dou

Abstract: The world of industrial automation technology is at the outset of a new era of innovation with the hype of Industry 4.0. Global modern industrial system converges the power of machines, computing, analytics, connectivity, cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, automation, cloud system and data exchange. Industry 4.0 is a revolution towards the digital world of digital factories and smart products. Big data is an integration of multi-disciplinary technologies and facilitates customer by bringing incredible services to a click. Internet of things connected the world of machines by adding communication capability in every device to connect to other devices or access the Internet. Big Data inflict a new horizon of opportunities in these systems. In this paper, challenges and opportunities of industrial big data are revealed in the context of Industry 4.0 with a different perspective. The current study helps the researchers to threshold these modern systems of Industry 4.0 in designing big data algorithms and techniques.