Industry 4.0: The Smart Factory of the Future in Beverage Industry

Abstract Beverage is the most essential a necessity through the human history, which is why, it has a wide range of production and consumption. Production has begun to digitalize with the developing technology, changing customer demands, and increasing competition between businesses. Due to the digitalization of production, automation has undergone major vicissitudes that experts refer to as the “fourth industrial revolution” or “Industry 4.0” that can be defined as the development of manufacturing technologies to allow higher levels of interconnectivity, leading to greater communication between machines and local processing of data. Nowadays, the systems in the beverage industry are centrally controlled, while in the future the machines and raw materials will be used in information and communication technologies for communication objectives. Future factories will be smart and cross-linked. This chapter contains the definition of Industry 4.0, its historical development processes, the innovations, and advantages it will bring to the manufacturing site.