Abstract
Industry 4.0 has risen as an integrated digital manufacturing environment, and it has created a novel research perspective that has thrust research to interdisciplinarity and exploitation of ICT advances. This work presents and discusses the main aspects of Industry 4.0 and how intelligence can be embedded in manufacturing to create the smart factory. It briefly describes the main components of Industry 4.0, and it focuses on the security challenges that the fully interconnected ecosystem of Industry 4.0 has to meet and the threats for each component. Preserving security has a crucial role in Industry 4.0, and it is vital for its existence, so the main research directions on how to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information shared among the Industry 4.0 components are presented. Another view is in light of the security issues that come as a result of enabling new technologies.
Highlights
We have witnessed a significant switchover in the industry led by the global market demands in the past decade
It briefly describes the main components of Industry 4.0, and it focuses on the security challenges that the fully interconnected ecosystem of Industry 4.0 has to meet and the threats for each component
Preserving security has a crucial role in Industry 4.0, and it is vital for its existence, so the main research directions on how to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information shared among the Industry 4.0 components are presented
Summary
We have witnessed a significant switchover in the industry led by the global market demands in the past decade. It is expected that knowledge-motivated manufacturing, which becomes a reality by utilizing the big data after processing them with AI analytics methods, will result in the continuing evolution of the industry, and in the development of products and services by integrating state-of-the-art communication technologies (e.g., 5G and beyond) into the production. These new technologies are merging physical, digital, and biological worlds. The novel integrated production technologies lead to the fourth industrial revolution They combine the adaptation and usage of several advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, cloud, internet, and robotics. We could summarize our research question as follows: Which vulnerable elements should be considered in designing and developing an I4.0 network, and how are they connected to the components of I4.0 and the technology provided?
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