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Why the Rise of Industrial Tech 4.5 Signals a New Phase in Automation and Industry Innovation

Industry 4.0 looked huge when it arrived. Companies connected machines, pushed everything to the cloud, and bragged about Big Data dashboards that promised efficiency. It worked to an extent. You got visibility. You got faster reporting. But the factory still waited on humans to interpret the data and make the next move. The gap between insight and action never fully closed. Industrial Tech 4.5 changes that story. This is not a small upgrade. This is the moment the system starts thinking at the speed the shop floor actually demands. Instead of stopping at connectivity, 4.5 pushes into autonomy and self-optimization. Machines talk to each other. They correct themselves. They run scenarios before anyone even knows something is drifting. The fuel behind this shift is the fusion of Edge AI, Generative…