Feeling Smart Industry

Smart industry appears as the result of a continuous evolution of sociological factors, economical changes and several technological enablers i.e., Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Internet of things, etc. Its main objective responds to the need to streamline and make more flexible industrial processes by having high levels of process automation and by supporting operators with thinking activities. While a lot of research is being carried out to push such technical endeavour, we notice a considerable gap in human centred features more specifically empathetic and emotive skills and the consideration of such soft skills in incoming new generation of industry. Such soft skills are revised by trans-disciplinary fields i.e., Feeling economy and can be applied and harmonised with the current Smart industry conception. Thus, main objective of this work is to introduce and discuss a new model and initial ideas of a new generation of industry with a deeper focus on affective, emotive and deeply human-centring namely "Feeling Smart Industry".