Industry 4.0 awareness in Turkey

Production systems are beginning to include technological developments rapidly with the fourth industrial revolution, which is defined as Industry 4.0 in the literature. The new revolution beginning with using the Internet in production effectively will be realized by integrating information technologies and cyber physical systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent factories and other Industry 4.0 components into the production systems. Industry 4.0, which started under the leadership of developed countries, is seen to be included in the future planning of the countries, and it is seen that the regulations and practices for new systems in the goverment industrial workforce have started. In our country, similar studies started on the basis of goverment policies. In addition to goverment studies, our industry needs to be prepared for Industry 4.0 applications. In this respect, Industry 4.0 perspective and the current technological level of Turkey's manufacturing industry was examined on the scope of work. With the Industry 4.0 awareness survey prepared by reaching 202 participants working in the production industry, the sectoral differences in the view of Industry 4.0 were determined, and the opinions of the participants were taken according to the Industry 4.0 knowledge level. 13 hypotheses were created in parallel with the prepared questionnaire and hypotheses were analyzed statistically. Differences in the point of view of Industry 4.0 were found on a sectoral basis. In addition, it was seen that Industry 4.0 awareness changes according to Industry 4.0 knowledge levels and whether there is a study about Industry 4.0 in their firms. Participants considered the transition to Industry 4.0, but stated that existing knowledge, information and technological infrastructures in the transition to new technologies would not be sufficient. Keywords: Industry 4.0, fourth industrial revolution, cyber physical systems, internet of things, smart factories