{"id":6320,"date":"2015-04-15T06:52:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2015-04-15T06:52:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T12:52:09","slug":"this-is-what-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6320","title":{"rendered":"This Is What the Fourth Industrial Revolution Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/life-after-the-fourth-industrial-revolution\">Daniel Oberhaus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fourth industrial revolution, more commonly known as \u201cIndustry 4.0,\u201d derives its name from a 2011 initiative spearheaded by businessmen, politicians, and academics, who defined it as a means of increasing the competitiveness of Germany\u2019s manufacturing industries through the increasing integration of \u201ccyber-physical systems,\u201d or CPS, into factory processes.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;CPS is basically a catch-all term for talking about the integration of smart, internet-connected machines and human labor. Factory managers are not simply reimagining the assembly line, but actively creating a network of machines that not only can produce more with fewer errors, but can autonomously alter their production patterns in accordance with external inputs while still retaining a high degree of efficiency.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;In other words, Industry 4.0 is the production-side equivalent of the consumer-oriented Internet of Things, in which everyday objects from cars to thermostats to toasters will be connected to the internet.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;This would be a \u201ccompletely new approach to production,\u201d according to a rep?ort released in 2013 by the Industrie 4.0 Working Group, a conglomerate of major industrialists, artificial intelligence experts, economists and academics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Daniel Oberhaus: The fourth industrial revolution, more commonly known as \u201cIndustry 4.0,\u201d derives its name from a 2011 initiative spearheaded by businessmen, politicians, and academics, who defined it as a means of increasing the competitiveness of Germany\u2019s manufacturing industries through the increasing integration of \u201ccyber-physical systems,\u201d or CPS, into factory processes.&nbsp;&nbsp;CPS is basically a catch-all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}