Overview

Smart computing is at the core of all present and future technological innovations. Connected things are widespread in the physical world, including modern manufacturing technologies and industrial processes that are largely controlled by software. Industry 4.0, industrial IoT and smart manufacturing are pervasive trends, that are changing the way physical goods are produced in all industrial sectors. While smart manufacturing presents unprecedented opportunities for improving the efficiency of industrial processes, ubiquitous connectivity among industrial machinery and between smart factories and the Cloud poses interesting research challenges. Novel paradigms are needed to allow scalable, real-time and resilient communication among industrial devices, according to specific needs of different industrial applications. Moreover, security issues in the connected industry are paramount, since cyber attacks to these systems can have relevant consequences for the safety of people.

The workshop on Smart Industries aims to bring together researchers from academia and from industry to meet and exchange ideas on recent research and future directions for smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0, focusing on solutions that can improve efficiency, sustainability and security of the future industrial processes. The workshop solicits contributions about novel solutions and approaches, experiences and evaluations on emerging technologies. The workshop is also a venue to discuss and disseminate projects results and to receive early feedbacks on work- in-progress and disruptive approaches. The topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• scalable and resilient protocols for industrial devices
• cloud solutions for industry 4.0
• emerging standards in smart industries and mobile systems
• industrial IoT
• secure and scalable SCADA systems
• real-time and time-bounded operating systems and communication protocols for industry 4.0
• smart grids and energy distribution
• smart medical applications and devices
• smart transportation systems
• secure protocols for industrial applications
• applications of distributed ledgers to industry 4.0
• trusted computation in untrusted environments
• smart contracts for industrial supply chain
• incident detection and management
• information sharing in smart industries
• human-machine interactions in cyber-physical systems
• innovative and secure sensing strategies for process monitoring and tracking of product history
• machine learning techniques applied to smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0
• smart tooling and in-line part inspection
• improving manufacturing through IoT and big data analytics
• process safety in industry 4.0