{"id":22487,"date":"2021-03-18T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regestaitalia.eu\/industry-5-0-its-already-time-for-the-european-commission-to-define-what-it-could-become\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:33:17","slug":"industry-5-0-its-already-time-for-the-european-commission-to-define-what-it-could-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regestaitalia.eu\/en\/industry-5-0-its-already-time-for-the-european-commission-to-define-what-it-could-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry 5.0: It’s already time for the European Commission to define what it could become"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fifth industrial revolution, where for the first time technology will serve Society<\/h2>\n

Throughout Europe, the principles of Industry 4.0, a term first used in 2011 in Germany, are now reaching a certain level of maturity, but the technological transition is still an ongoing process. Despite this, the contingencies of the last period have highlighted the need to accelerate the digital transition and revise certain methodologies: thus the concept of Industry 5.0 was hypothesized. <\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>fifth industrial revolution<\/span><\/i> however, has assumptions in the <\/span>sign of continuity <\/b>vis-\u00e0-vis the transition that began with Industry 4.0.<\/span><\/p>\n

All EU member states are pushing and fostering the digitization process through tax relief initiatives. While in the early years these related more strictly to the transformation of production assets, they now extend to software more broadly, as happened in Italy with the shift to the <\/span>National Transition 4.0 Plan.<\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

The crisis born out of Covid-19 has highlighted the need to rethink many of the working methodologies, highlighted points of vulnerability in industry and the need for flexibility to deal with it. At the same time, many have questioned the role of modern industry in society: from the issue of environmental impact, from which the Green Deal was born, to the transformation of work and workers, a consequence of emerging technologies. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The need for Industry 5.0<\/h2>\n

These reflections have accelerated the European Commission to think about the principles of a fifth industrial revolution: this time, however, it is not so much new technological opportunities that are driving this need, but the need to create a 5.0 Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading through the technology categories identified by the European Union as driving Industry 5.0 in fact, one finds perfect continuity with what the now well-known Industry 4.0 has been promoting for a decade: individualized human-machine interaction, biologically inspired technologies, digital twins and systems simulation, data flow and analysis platforms, artificial intelligence and energy efficiency.<\/span><\/p>\n

The different goal of the new industrial revolution, compared to the fourth industrial revolution, is to push these technologies not only within industry in pursuit of better production and profit conditions, but within the everyday life of all European citizens as tools for improving living conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

The principles of Industry 5.0<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>
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I<\/span> principles of Industry 5.0 identified by the European Commission are mainly three:<\/span><\/p>\n