Electronics in Advanced Research Industries

1State of the Art and Technology Innovation

The chapter is focused on the technological and scientific state of the art about information technology (IT) advances. Starting with Industry 4.0 enabling technologies, the scientific improvements transforming the production lines and machines in intelligent systems following the logic of Industry 5.0 are discussed. The new facilities and the new technologies are oriented on the design of flexible and dynamical production processes, taking into account the market demand which is increasingly unpredictable. Starting with the enabling technologies of Industry 4.0, the specifications of the hardware and software technologies for advances in Industry 5.0 manufacturing industries are introduced. Communication protocols able to improve sensing and actuation in production processes are also discussed. Moreover, the analysis describes the Internet of Things (IoT) protocols, IoT upgrade processes and technological improvements, where of particular interest in monitoring industrial processing is infrared thermography (IRT) for improving thermal measurements in the production environment. The chapter is also focused on the description of different levels of the company information system, where sensors monitoring production constitute the field layer. The discussion is then oriented to provide an overview about sensors communicating with the local network by protocols, and achieving intelligent and efficient sensing and actuation. All the analyzed ...