Industries to benefit from smart workshops

When you think of workshops in manufacturing companies, you would often associate them with lines of workers standing or sitting in front of an assembly line, busy at work.

But that may soon change. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, aims to automate the whole manufacturing process, whereby machines will handle the entire work starting from order processing to packaging.

At the "Light of the Internet" expo, organized as part of the Second World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, the Shenyang Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and German software major SAP SE exhibited a smart industrial workshop, that runs on SAP software.