Companies are concerned about the impacts of industry 4.0 technologies on business processes. In this sense, researchers are developing studies to improve the understanding related to new techniques, frameworks and concepts to support the implementation of industry 4.0 and technological adoption. This paper aims to perform a bibliometric performance and network analysis on the use of process modelling for industry 4.0 to develop a holistic observation through the evolution structure of the field of study, pointing the main challenges, trends and suggestions for future works. The SciMAT software was used to perform the network analysis and the VOSviewer was used to analyze co-authorship between authors. Our results present the scientific evolution with 17 clusters in which the most representative themes are 'design', 'framework' and ‘cloud computing’. Besides, the intellectual structures of motor themes are presented as well as the main challenges, trends and suggestions for further research.