For some time now the term Industry 4.0 has often been mentioned in connection with image processing and it is predicted to turn our habits upside down. Together with the World Wide Web, Industry 4.0 connects the real production world with the virtual, for putting the flexibility of the production onto a new step.
However applications engineers often object that, to realize self-learning image processing systems such as Industry 4.0 scenarios demand, several standards have to be developed first. These should not only serve the check routines, but also should define the interfaces between the image processing and the whole system with decentralized communication.