Fractal Production Reprogramming “Industrie 4.0” Around Resource and Energy Efficiency?

The evolution of the world of energy towards a system of decentralized production and consumption assets makes it possible to understand better the upcoming industrial revolution, which will be one of distributed information flows. A new paradigm, the “blockchain”, enables economic actors to completely decentralize information flows without intermediaries. Even though many technological locks still exist today, it becomes possible already today to imagine that each machine or connected object will be able to communicate autonomously and securely with others, learn and enrich its mode of operation thanks to artificial intelligence technologies. The business models will be strongly impacted by a greater flexibility of the manufacturing capacities, their adaptation in real time to consumer constraints and the optimization of supply management (raw material, energy and components) through smart purchase, onsite production, 3D-printing and smart logistics: a fractal production with shorter supply channels steered by resources and energy efficiency data.