Technological leaps have led to shifts in paradigm which nowadays known and named as “industrial revolutions”. The mechanization field is where the so-called 1st industrial revolution took place, the intensive use of electrical energy led to the second industrial revolution, and the widespread of digitalization led to the 3rd one. On the basis of an advanced digitalization within manufacturing plants, combining the Internet technologies and future-oriented technologies in the field of “smart” objects (machines and products) seems to be in the way of resulting a new fundamental paradigm shift in industrial production. A great challenge is represented by the Industry 4.0 for businesses in general and for SMEs in particular.