All-Around Approach for Reliability of Measurement Data in the Industry 4.0

The concepts of Industry 4.0 and ‘Factory of the Future’ move the factory itself towards a completely inter-connected framework, including its supply chain, able to create autonomous flow of data and information for reliable decision making. This article analyzes the main areas of interest throughout the measurement process, ranging from the data acquisition to the data storing. Some useful issues are provided to interpret in a coherent and refined way the challenges proposed by the data lifecycle, on the whole. Synchronizing digital networks of sensors, digital calibration, in-line and on-line calibration and the problem of cost of these actions are another area of discussion.. Data processing, according to the need for big data processing, are discussed for the purpose of posing the problem and the outlining requirements for other issues.