Future Sensors for Smart Objects by Printing Technologies in Industry 4.0 Scenario

Michela Borghetti, Edoardo Cantù, Emilio Sardini and Mauro Serpelloni
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Michela Borghetti: Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Edoardo Cantù: Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Emilio Sardini: Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Mauro Serpelloni: Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 22, 1-15

Abstract: Industry 4.0 has radically been transforming the production processes and systems with the adoption of enabling technologies, such as Internet of things (IoT), big data, additive manufacturing (AM), and cloud computing. In this context, sensors are essential to extract information about production, spare parts, equipment health, and environmental conditions necessary for improving many aspects of industrial processes (flexibility, efficiency, costs, etc.). Sensors should be placed everywhere (on machines, smart devices, objects, and tools) inside the factory to monitor in real-time physical quantities such as temperature, vibrations, deformations that could affect the production. Printed electronics (PE) offers techniques to produce unconventional sensor and systems or to make conventional objects “smart”. This work aims to analyze innovative PE technologies—inkjet printing and aerosol jet printing in combination with photonic curing—as manufacturing technologies for electronics and sensors to be integrated into objects, showing a series of sensors fabricated by PE as applications that will be adopted for smart objects and Industry 4.0.

Keywords: aerosol jet printing; inkjet printing; photonic curing; flash lamp annealing; industry 4.0; I4.0; IoT; smart devices; predictive maintenance; PdM; environmental parameters monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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