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The fourth industrial revolution is the transformation of industrial and manufacturing products, introducing the new stages in the organization, valuing creation processes, and controlling the organizational value chain. Cloud computing (CC) is one of the biggest aspects to boost manufacturing products. CC brought about a remarkable overhaul of the enterprise’s phenomena, a significant investment to establish IT infrastructure. In almost every business, CC benefits in many ways. The most prominent features are the flexibility to pay for resources, 24/7 availability, on-demand means resource elasticity, based on need only. Moreover, when it comes to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), an existing infrastructure on the pay-as-you-go platform, an obvious choice for enterprises saving on the cost of investment to acquire, control, available, manage, and maintain server all the time. Infrastructure becomes a commodity; the majority of businesses use the services of the cloud to enhance the manufacturing productions, whether or not they know about the cloud.

To show the advantage of cloud computing in industry 4.0, we have adopted the real-world scenario to make the concept clear. Consider your business has multiple locations, you might have trouble connecting the team, and trying to collaborate on the same project, because of the distance between them. The same issue arises when your employees work remotely. The thing is how we can tackle the situation; cloud collaboration tools allow your people to access the same project and connect several people remotely in a single go. Accessing the real-time project reduces time and money and has many advantages: the ability to upload documents and send via email remotely; decreasing the time for updating; easy to monitor and get updates on the project completion; enhancing communication, reducing cost, and increasing productivity.

Consider another aspect: your company rapidly grows, but you do not have a way to scale your infrastructure. With the rapid enhancement of organizational production growth, you want to hire employees, but you do not have an idea of when and how large it will become. When you purchase convectional internal infrastructure, and potentially you want employees to maintain, that will increase the cost of purchases and hiring employees. In this situation, the cloud is the better solution; no matter how quickly you grow, cloud service provider simply provides scale on-demand IT infrastructure as per need and pay for what you used. The prominent feature in this scenario is protected machine communication; it is a trustable remote service; it provides a secure channel to access IT resources; you can rely on it.