Industry 4.0 is a modern approach to enable communication between people, products and complex systems by using internet technology with control systems. Smart sensors and actuators are used for enabling communication and improving intelligent operation control as a result of which the products and production tools with embedded systems are improved. These are called cyber-physical systems pose a challenge in design and development processes. Therefore relevant engineering approaches are

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... d. A state-of-the-art for Industry 4.0 is presented here and the main cases are reported for establishing this framework. When Industry 4.0 is referred, safety, security, knowledge protection and privacy play a key role.