Performance analysis improvements of Plastic and Rubber Production Process in Industry 4.0 environment Abstract With the fast development of the internet and the Internet of Things (IoT), the industries have rapidly welcomed the development of technology and they have been moving toward industrial automation, aiming to the reduction of costs and more importantly saving the environmental resources. The I 4.0 emerged to help the industrial factories to automate and facilitate their production process and embrace the new technology and address the issues of reducing the costs, saving environmental resources and eventually increasing competitiveness and productivity. Many countries now and many industries welcomed the I 4.0.