The fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, is profoundly changing the traditional production models in the manufacturing industry, through the complete convergence between physical and digital systems, the interconnection and the connection of the machines to the Internet, the complex analyzes of large quantities of data related to production, introduction of new production processes, collaboration between man and machine, and other technologies.

Thanks to 6 research areas, more than 200 professors and researchers and about 900 people involved in its activities, the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of the Politecnico di Milano is one of the most important research, technology and teaching transfer centres, in the field of Information and Communication Technology, natural platform for the development of Industry 4.0 technologies.

The brochure here attached shows all the DEIB's expertise on I4.0: Brochure I4.0 (only in Italian).