Industry 4.0 vs Industrie 4.0: how Different Countries See the Fourth Industrial Revolution. A quantitative study.

During the past six years, industries all over the world have been undergoing a transformation which is often called Industry 4.0. Formulated in Germany in 2011, the 4.0 paradigm has been quickly translated in the rest of the developed world. Despite this rapid convergence of interest there is no common ground in the delineation of the field . The goal of this paper is to understand how the concept of Industry 4.0 changes from nation to nation, putting the focus on the differences existing between Germany and the rest of the developed world. To reach this goal we take Wikipedia as a source of knowledge, generate a graph of pages which are connected to the German and English Industry 4.0 pages, sanitize the graphs and apply clustering analysis to the networks. The first results show that the topic of Industry 4.0 is still more discussed in Germany with a focus on the development of production technologies. In contrast to this, topics like big data analysis and cloud computing play a major role outside of Germany, where focus is on creating data-driven business models and large, digital platforms in manufacturing industries.