Like with the previous revolutions the goal of the fourth revolution is to make manufacturing, design, logistics, maintenance, and other related fields faster, more efficient, and more customer centric. This holds for classical industries, for civil engineering, and for NDE and goes along with new business opportunities and models. Core components to enable those fourth revolutions are semantic interoperability, converting data into information, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offering the possibility for every device, asset, or thing to communicate with each other using standard open interfaces, and the digital twin converting all the available information into knowledge and closing the cyber-physical loop. For NDE this concept can be used #1 to design, improve, and tailor the inspection system hard- and software and #2 to choose and adapt to best inspection solution for the customer or to enhance the inspection performance. Enabling better quality, speed, and cost at the same time. On a broader view, the integration of NDE into IIoT and Digital Twin is the chance for the NDE industry for the overdue change from a cost center to a value center. In most cases, data gathered by NDE is used for a quality assurance assessment resulting in a binary decision. But the information content of NDE goes way deeper and is of major interest for additional groups: engineering and management. Some of those groups might currently not be aware of the benefits of NDE data and the NDE industry makes the access unnecessarily difficult by proprietary interfaces and data formats. Both those challenges need to be taken on now by the NDE industry. The big IT players are not waiting and, if not available on the market, they will develop and offer additional data sources including ultrasonics, X-ray or eddy current.

与之前的革命一样，第四次革命的目标是使制造，设计，物流，维护和其他相关领域更快，更高效，更以客户为中心。这适用于古典工业，土木工程和NDE，并伴随着新的商机和模型。实现第四次革命的核心组件是语义互操作性，将数据转换为信息，工业物联网（IIoT）提供了每种设备，资产或事物使用标准开放接口相互通信的可能性以及数字双胞胎转换将所有可用信息转化为知识，并封闭网络物理循环。对于NDE，此概念可用于＃1的设计，改进，并量身定制检测系统的硬件和软件以及＃2，以选择和适应客户的最佳检测解决方案或提高检测性能。同时实现更好的质量，速度和成本。从更广泛的角度来看，将NDE集成到IIoT和Digital Twin中是NDE行业从成本中心到价值中心的逾期变更的机会。在大多数情况下，由NDE收集的数据用于质量保证评估，从而得出二元决策。但是，NDE的信息内容更加深入，并且对其他组（工程和管理）具有重大意义。这些组中的一些目前可能不了解NDE数据的好处，并且NDE行业通过专有接口和数据格式使访问不必要地变得困难。无损检测行业现在必须应对这两个挑战。大型IT厂商迫不及待，并且，如果市场上没有这种产品，他们将开发并提供其他数据源，包括超声波，X射线或涡流。