INDUSTRY 4.0: a challenge for the future of manufacturing in Italy

In the world of production, major changes are emerging, which for ease of discussion and approach have been grouped into a container called Industry 4.0. The forecast is that modern information and communication technologies will merge with industrial processes. “We are preparing to face these changes by activating collaborations with partners from the industrial and scientific world, to respond to new challenges and play an active role in shaping new technologies”, explain the heads of Festo’s development and program strategy. The company, in fact, considers the development of production systems with a holistic approach and from different points of view, evaluating both the purely technological aspects and other factors such as man-machine cooperation or the subject of training.