INDUSTRY 4.0 – DIGITALIZATION FROM DESIGN TO PRODUCTION AND MARKET IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS

The “Industry 4.0” project has hit the bull’s eye of this type of innovation, overcoming that “way of doing things which is a bit special”, typical of the past 50 years, proposing to encourage from the very first phase of conception of products the dialogue between things, people and environments. There is an interactive dialogue, in real time, between the types of knowledge mentioned and both the quantitative and qualitative processes are checked. The new Country-project, as per the “Industrial Plan 4.0”, presented in September 2016, puts innovation at the centre; it is the project of a modern and competitive economy in infrastructural networks (broadband, digital), and in the specific case in manufacturing. It takes on a fundamental role and its evolution drives the whole productive organization and strategic planning (the factory and the connected services) to be transformed from analogue to digital. The challenge concerns, in a context of SME, how to attract managers, how to have relations with universities, how to be in a network: the success factor is not played out only on the companies, but above all on the world of knowledge and on the relationship that the world of knowledge can have with the entrepreneurial world. Here we end up by reflecting on the dimensional targets of the companies, on the sectors and on aggregations of companies.