Towards a framework to position resilience and Industry 4.0

Abstract

In the last decade, there has been a rapid digital transformation of industrial production systems, often called ‘Industry 4.0.’ In parallel these systems have to function in a continuous evolving environment and to face different kind of perturbations. Therefore, there is trend to design robust and resilient systems requiring to evaluate systems’ resilience. A step forwards this objective is to understand and define the concept in relation to its application area, here Industry 4.0. Indeed, the concept of resilience has been studied in various fields, covering different definitions and characteristics such as the ability to anticipate, to survive and to react to exceptional situations. This paper makes a literature review of the concept of resilience and its different aspects and then position it in the Industry 4.0 context. To achieve this objective a coarse framework linking Industry 4.0 pillars and components with the different aspects of resilience (characteristics, phases and strategies) is proposed.