Integration of artificial intelligence in Industry 4.0: challenges, paradigms and applications

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a very disruptive technology, which combined with powerful computational hardware have opened new possibilities for world-wide technological progress in industry. There is an urgent need for systematic development and implementation of AI to see its real impact in the next generation of industrial systems, namely Industry 4.0. Organisations that do not do so will fail to maintain their competitiveness. This paper provides an insight into the main paradigms of AI technologies used in Industry 4.0, by giving emphasis to the key enabling digitalization technologies and their challenges. In addition, we present an overview of AI current state and the most important AI algorithms used in Industry 4.0. Finally, we discuss trends related to adoption of AI in the context of software embedded applications and software architectures for embedded systems.