The Industry 4.0 has become an increasingly constant topic in the business and industrial world
due to all its technological innovations of interconnecting and reading data in order to boost
production and generate more gains for the firm. However, the implementation of the
innovations has thrown up a number of challenges that both the country and the industry itself
need to understand and solve. Given the inequality and concentration of industry in the
Southeast region that has surrounded Brazil throughout its industrial and economic formation,
it has only hindered the challenges that geographically distant regions, such as the North, will
have to face to enter the fourth revolution. The Manaus Free Trade Zone is then created to
supply all the difference and concentration of industries, income, and population. Thus, with
the advent of revolutions throughout the industrial formation and the most recent revolution
4.0, this paper seeks to identify what challenges the ZFM (The Manaus Free Trade Zone) must
go through to effectively enter the new era of industry beyond the social and economic
opportunities that the insertion of Industry 4.0 should bring to the northern region. Thus, the
research aimed to analyze the industrial development of the industrial center of the North
region, the Manaus Industrial Pole which is in the Manaus Free Trade Zone model with a focus
on the challenges and prospects of implementing Industry 4.0 in the production mode through
bibliographic research being used scientific articles, journalistic articles and interviews, books,
among other bibliographic materials and analyzed by methods appropriate to the type of
research, as theoretical historical method, descriptive and analytical theoretical, and descriptive
quantitative. Resulting thus in a better understanding of the history and importance of the great
industrial revolutions in developed countries, compared to Brazil, which originated the
innovative ideas of Industry 4.0 and great challenges of implementation in geographically
distant regions such as the MFTZ, with high implementation costs, scarce skilled labor,
uncertainty about the possibility of increasing unemployment, among other factors. But good
prospects were also identified regarding the implementation of technological advances, through
various projects, investments, cooperation between public and private initiative, and indicators
of employability, costs and revenues behaving in a directly proportional way, thus
demonstrating an interesting and favorable path to Industry 4.0 in the Manaus Free Trade Zone.
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