As many as seven out of ten enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors and resellers are developing solutions that are Industry 4.0 ready. They are doing this in expectation of a boom in Industry 4.0 technologies, and a growth in manufacturing processes that embrace the principles of this much anticipated fourth Industrial Revolution.
So what makes Industry 4.0 so different to what has come before, and why is ERP so central to the debate? Industry 4.0 demands the digitisation of products–and also the processes that create them.
