Industry 4.0,leap frog oppurtunity for India (essay )
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The role of Manufacturing in economy has changed over time. As economies developed, the share of manufacturing GDP has peaked in most countries. Consumption as well as employment has shifted towards Services. Share of Services in most Products is increasing, with the evolution of Smart products, productivity improvements, outsourcing of business services like R&D, Logistics and Marketing (which used to be part of Manufacturing GDP), and new “service-like” pricing models.
Of late, manufacturing is regaining its importance for other factors such as its ability to drive productivity growth, innovation and trade as well as the base for increasing services. This is evidenced by the recent Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum, held at Davos where “Fourth Industrial Revolution” was the key topic.
India is no exception to this Global trend and is steadily increasing its share of Global Manufacturing GDP. All leading countries are embarking on major initiatives to promote manufacturing by adopting the advancements in Internet and Information Technology arenas. German government announced “Industry 4.0” while governments in China and India have their own focussed programs, “Made in China 2025” and “Make in India” respectively. In the USA, it is “Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)” which is leading the efforts towards launching the Industry to the next level. Interestingly, USA is Germany’s Partner Country at this year’s Hannover Messe where the lead theme is “Integrated Industry – Discover Solutions”.
Frogs can live on land and in fresh water. They cannot survive in salt water. Their development is by metamorphosis. They usually hatch as tadpoles from eggs, which are laid by a female frog. The eggs are called frogspawn. Tadpoles have tails and gills. The next stage, the "froglet," develops lungs to breathe air instead of gills, but still have tails. The fully grown frog has long legs and no tail.
Adult frogs can jump with their legs. They have long tongues that they use to catch bugs. They make a sound called a croak. Some species live in trees, and some types of frog are protected by being poisonous. Frogs live all over the world. If a foreign species of frogs is introduced to another country, the local ecosystem might be affected.
Frog legs are sometimes eaten as food in France, China, and the Midwest of the United States. The killing of frogs might have an effect on the ecosystem. For example, frogs eat mosquitoes. If frogs are killed, then there are fewer frogs to eat mosquitoes, so more and more mosquitoes are born. Therefore, in these areas, there are more diseases that mosquitoes carry, because there are more mosquitoes. However, for this to apply, frogs would have to be a major predator of mosquitoes. This would only rarely be the case.