Talk:Smart manufacturing

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Industry 4.0 merge
says that digital manufacturing, Industrial Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0 are all the same thing. says smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 are the same thing. Smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 say that "Industry 4.0" is the name of an economic development program of the German government, that "smart manufacturing" is a part of it, and that it's the same thing as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. I don't think there's consensus among economic historians that a "fourth industrial revolution" is underway, or how that would be defined. Most of this material seems to be promotion by people who want to encourage economic development, or speculative, and I think once that's cut out, there's not enough material for three separate articles. Smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 currently have the most overlap, so I'm proposing that they be merged. A single article can explain the different terminology, but the underlying ideas and technology seem to be the same. -- Beland (talk) 18:25, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

It is premature to merge these two because Industry 4.0 is still defining itself. Governments have started referring to Industry 4.0 as its own thing. There is enough separation between these two terms. If one takes a closer look at Industry 4.0 there is a strong argument for Industry 4.0 because of its stronger definition boundaries than Smart manufacturing which can be argued to merge with Automation; This line of reasoning would collapse the entire Wikipedia into one article called EVERYTHING. * Smart manufacturing is about automating production with robotics. * Industry 4.0 is about using Machine Learning, data analytics and IIoT devices to control production. I vote no to merging these two -- Mkevlar TheKevlar 14:27, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

My understanding, having gone through the paraphernalia, is industry 4.0 is the subset of the 4th industrial revolution that pertains to industry, and therefore is wider in scope than smart manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing is part of industry. Therefore, I recommend that smart manufacturing be placed as a section within the wider concept of industry 4.0 Jamerutl (talk) 14:35, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

From reading around the internet I get the impression that industry 4.0 is the more common term, and I agree that smart manufacturing is a subset of industry 4.0 (since there's other forms of industry). I'd suggest either: no merge, or merge smart manufacturing into industry 4.0. 86.165.90.55 (talk) 23:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Subsuming "industry 4.0" under "smart manufacturing" seems to me to be an attempt by latecomer NIST to impose its own label on this trend. I vote for keeping the original "industry 4.0"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 6ghostbuster3 (talk • contribs) 02:10, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Industry 4.0 is a topic that is sufficient enough to be a standalone topic in Wikipedia, many sources cited about this topic support this — Preceding unsigned comment added by PopovicAndela (talk • contribs) 18:33, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Considering the fact that the term Industry 4.0 represents a fourth revolution that has occurred in manufacturing and it is an increasingly popular term that is used among people nowadays I suggest it has its own page in Wikipedia. The term Smart Manufacturing does not hold the same weight in the eyes of the general public and therefore term Industry 4.0 is likely to be used more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PopovicAndela (talk • contribs) 16:26, 28 May 2020 (UTC)