Main Industry 4.0 Initiatives in Member Countries of the OECD

The content of this article studies a phenomenon known as Industry 4.0, which refers to a new Industrial revolution leveraged by a set of new technologies, especially by cyber-physical systems. The main objective of this research is to obtain an overview of the state of art of Industry 4.0 initiatives among governments of the member countries of the OECD, as well as looking for the most representative architectures of development of Industry 4.0 to establish an analysis of similarities and differences between them in a subsequent investigation. These initiatives are made possible through programs either established completely by governments or by the collaboration of both public and private organizations with the objective of taking advantage of the phenomenon that Industry 4.0 supposes. The method used to identify Industry's 4.0 initiatives establishes 34 OECD member countries plus 5 in process of accession as a population and uses a standard search through conventional internet search engines based on the bibliographic study methodology, emphasizing governmental portals of economy and technology.