Industry 4.0 Applied to Food

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, (Big data management, internet of things, cloud computing, automation process control) includes a variety of new enabling technologies (i.e., Big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing, automation, and so on) that allow the digitization of a manufacturing environment. Consequently, the way companies operate is drastically changing, regardless of the industry they belong to. As for the food industry in particular, its increasingly customer-oriented characterization implies the need of faster response times in order to address dynamic and collaborative supply chains. Thus, it can be stressed that Industry 4.0 is changing the food industry. In the present work, a systematic literature review is realized on the implementation of the Industry 4.0 paradigm in the food industry, and a general framework is derived from the review.