Big Data, AI & IoT Part Two: Driving Industry 4.0 One Step At A Time
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Charles Towers-Clark
Originally published on Towards AI.

Factories, refineries, utilities and all manner of industrial environments will benefit from AI, Big Data, and IoT, but what will it take to get there? UNSPLASH
What comes to mind when you think of a factory? A dark Victorian mill? A Charlie Chaplin skit? Or a robotized production line? Industrial manufacturing has consistently been a marker of progress, acting as a sign of the times as each generation has developed increasingly advanced technologies.
But although industrial companies have used digital technology for years to improve their processes, the power of connected sensors, data and artificial intelligence (AI) at all stages of an… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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