Innovation and Competitiveness in Industry 4.0 Based on Intelligent Systems

This book presents a series of applications of different techniques found in Industry 4.0 concerning productivity, continuous improvement, quality, decision systems, software development, and automation systems. The techniques used throughout this book allow the reader to replicate the results obtained towards different types of companies that wish to undertake in the new era of the digital industrial revolution. This book can also help students from different engineering areas to understand how new technologies are applied to solve current relevant problems and how they give the possibility of constant innovation in the different industrial sectors. The above is accomplished through the analysis of illustrative case studies, descriptive methodologies, and structured insights provided through the different techniques. - Presents applications of techniques found in Industry 4.0 with relation to critical issues in business operation; - Includes mathematical andtechnical methodologies applied in cases of study of Industry 4.0; - Features applications associated with smart manufacturing in specific scenarios and their resolution through machine learning.