Industry 4.0 Applications

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**Chapter 10**

Industry

**Abstract**

production.

**1. Introduction**

*and Nwankwo Samuel*

Application of the Fourth

Industrial Revolution for High

*Daniyan Ilesanmi, Oyesola Moses, Mpofu Khumbulani*

Volume Production in the Rail Car

Some recent technological advances in line with the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) are rapidly transforming the industrial sector. This work explores the prospect of robotic and additive manufacturing solutions for mass production in the rail industry. It proposes a dual arm, 12-axis welding robot with advance sensors, camera, and algorithm as well as intelligent control system. The computer-aided design (CAD) of the robotic system was done in the Solidworks 2017 environment and simulated using the adaptive neuro-fuzzy interference system (ANFIS) in order to determine the kinematic motion of the robotic arm and the angles of joint. The simulation results showed the smooth motion of the robot and its suitability to carry out the welding operations for mass production of components during rail car manufacturing. In addition, the ability to fabricate several physical models directly from digital data through additive manufacturing (AM) is a key factor to ensuring rapid product development cycle. Given that AM is embedded in a digitally connected environment, flow of information as well as data processing and transmission in real time will be useful for massive turnout during mass

**Keywords:** 4IR, additive manufacturing, kinematics, robotic solution, simulation

Previous industrial revolutions have given birth to various breakthroughs in the rail industry ranging from the development of trains powered by diesel to electric. In recent times, the advent of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and robust digital solutions have produced advance technology for manufacturing. As shown in **Figure 1**, this innovative advances in manufacturing relates to automation and robotics [1, 2], Additive Manufacturing (AM) including subsets like 3D printing, Rapid Prototyping, Direct Digital Manufacturing [3, 4], Cyber-physical systems (CPS) [5], Physical Internet (PI) and Internet of Things (IoT) in the logistics and transportation area [6, 7] as well as artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality,
