European Scientific Journal April 2018 edition Vol.14, No.10 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 378 Importance of the Use of the Internet of Things and its Implications in the Manufacturing Industry Laura Contreras, (PhD student in Strategic Planning and Technology Development) Juan Perez, (PhD in Strategic Planning and Technology Development) UPAEP, México Doi: 10.19044/esj.2018.v14n10p378 URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2018.v14n10p378 Abstract The research presented in this paper is a literary analysis of 91 papers of 31 different journals of world recognition from different countries (England, Poland, Spain, China, Switzerland, Netherlands); focusing on productivity improvement inside a business through Internet of Things (IoT) in the manufacturing industry. It is essential to know the implications in the use of IoT for productivity improvement because IoT is having great influence in different context, one of them is businesses. The objective of this paper is to know the implications of the use of IoT to increase productivity, focusing on security and data privacy in the manufacturing sector. Suggestions are made regarding big data, digital manufacturing, the supply chain, cybersecurity, and monitoring and control systems for implementing IoT to improve productivity in a manufacturing industry. The use of new tools and technologies for improving productivity imply that the detailed aspects for its implementation must be analyze. Keywords: Internet of Things, Manufacturing Industry, Productivity Introduction: Imagine that in a manufacturing business a problem has occurred many times in the production line, in which a piece is stuck in one of the machines, but thanks to the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) the machine automatically resolves the problem without human intervention. The IoT allows the communication between different devices in order to generate great amounts of data that have the potential of generating new knowledge through different domains (Ryu, Kim, & Yun, 2015). In the business sector, researches are being made regarding the use of IoT; one of them is the use of a framework that