Evolutionof Man

Applied System Innovation

While a significant number of companies around the world are still trying to adapt to Industry 4 [...]

2020

Received: 25 January 2019 Abstract Accepted: 14 August 2019 Low cost manufacturing of quality products remains an essential part of present economy and technological advances made it possible. Advances and amalgamation of information technology bring the production systems at newer level. Industry 4.0, factory for future, smart factory, digital manufacturing, and industrial automation are the new buzz words of industry stalwarts and academicians. These new technological revolutions bound to change not only the complete manufacturing scenarios but many other sectors of the society. In this paper an attempt has been made to capture the essence of Industry 4.0 by redefining it in simple words, further its complex, disruptive nature and inevitability along with technologies backing it has been discussed. Its enabling role in manufacturing philosophies like Lean Manufacturing, and Flexible Manufacturing are also reported. At last the challenges its adoption and future research areas are ...

Wroclaw University of Economics and Business eBooks, 2023

The concept of Industry 5.0 is a game changer for the fourth industrial revolution. It extends the ideas of Industry 4.0 with values related to sustainable development, human focus and resilience of the industry. The purpose of the chapter is to identify the critical areas of digital technologies used during the fourth industrial revolution and to identify their impact on achieving the main goals of Industry 5.0, i.e., human orientation, sustainable development and resistance to all kinds of interference. The authors used the method of critical analysis of the literature and conducted an expert survey of selected experts representing the business and academic communities. In addition, the chapter draws attention to the increase in competency requirements of employees related to the implementation of Industry 5.0 technology areas.

2021

Since the eighties of the last century, investment capital flow was mainly directed to the countries with cheap labor. The current fast technological advancement is allowing for redirection of the investment capital flow back to the countries with highly educated workforce. The success in business is nowadays determined by brain, more than by hands. The latest, massive wave of innovation is referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, and it’s built upon the use of the most advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs), automation, and robotization of all areas of the industry. Production factories are complex socio-economic systems. The world globalization aided and expedited the wide expanse of scientific knowledge, new methods and technologies around the world. The technological progress forces the producers to invoke a rapid transformation of the manufacturing environment. If the producers want to keep up their competitiveness, they need to think quickly, antici...

it - Information Technology, 2018

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2018

Manufacturing industry profoundly impact economic and societal progress. As being a commonly accepted term for research centers and universities, the Industry 4.0 initiative has received a splendid attention of the business and research community. Although the idea is not new and was on the agenda of academic research in many years with different perceptions, the term "Industry 4.0" is just launched and well accepted to some extend not only in academic life but also in the industrial society as well. While academic research focuses on understanding and defining the concept and trying to develop related systems, business models and respective methodologies, industry, on the other hand, focuses its attention on the change of industrial machine suits and intelligent products as well as potential customers on this progress. It is therefore important for the companies to primarily understand the features and content of the Industry 4.0 for potential transformation from machine dominant manufacturing to digital manufacturing. In order to achieve a successful transformation, they should clearly review their positions and respective potentials against basic requirements set forward for Industry 4.0 standard. This will allow them to generate a well-defined road map. There has been several approaches and discussions going on along this line, a several road maps are already proposed. Some of those are reviewed in this paper. However, the literature clearly indicates the lack of respective assessment methodologies. Since the implementation and applications of related theorems and definitions outlined for the 4th industrial revolution is not mature enough for most of the reel life implementations, a systematic approach for making respective assessments and evaluations seems to be urgently required for those who are intending to speed this transformation up. It is now main responsibility of the research community to developed technological infrastructure with physical systems, management models, business models as well as some well-defined Industry 4.0 scenarios in order to make the life for the practitioners easy. It is estimated by the experts that the Industry 4.0 and related progress along this line will have an enormous effect on social life. As outlined in the introduction, some social transformation is also expected. It is assumed that the robots will be more dominant in manufacturing, implanted technologies, cooperating and coordinating machines, self-decision-making systems, autonom problem solvers, learning machines, 3D printing etc. will dominate the production process. Wearable internet, big data analysis, sensor based life, smart city implementations or similar applications will be the main concern of the community. This social transformation will naturally trigger the manufacturing society to improve their manufacturing suits to cope with the customer requirements and sustain competitive advantage. A summary of the potential progress along this line is reviewed in introduction of the paper. It is so obvious that the future manufacturing systems will have a different vision composed of products, intelligence, communications and information network. This will bring about new business models to be dominant in industrial life. Another important issue to take into account is that the time span of this so-called revolution will be so short triggering a continues transformation process to yield some new industrial areas to emerge. This clearly puts a big pressure on manufacturers to learn, understand, design and implement the transformation process. Since the main motivation for finding the best way to follow this transformation, a comprehensive literature review will generate a remarkable support. This paper presents such a review for highlighting the progress and aims to help improve the awareness on the best experiences. It is intended to provide a clear idea for those wishing to generate a road map for digitizing the respective manufacturing suits. By presenting this review it is also intended to provide a hands-on library of Industry 4.0 to both academics as well as industrial practitioners. The top 100 headings, abstracts and key words (i.e. a total of 619 publications of any kind) for each search term were independently analyzed in order to ensure the reliability of the review process.

2019

The transition towards a digitized industry is full of challenges and perils, as well as it encompasses many business opportunities for the renovation of the European manufacturing sector and the safeguarding of its competitiveness at international markets. Development of a more service-oriented strategy, digitization of entire value chains and introduction of new disruptive technologies in production plants such as IoT, AI, robotics or 3d printing have been commonly argued as imperious needs by the European policy arena. This demand for the development of an Industry 4.0 paradigm in the old continent has also been backed up by significant initiatives such as the “Factories of the Future” Public Private Partnership by the EC as well as other important coordinated efforts at national level by member states. However, this transition towards an automated, connected and smart factory is full of uncertainties, as different concerns regarding unemployment and deskilling, asymmetries betwe...

Applied System Innovation, 2022

The term Industry 4.0, coined to be the fourth industrial revolution, refers to a higher level of automation for operational productivity and efficiency by connecting virtual and physical worlds in an industry. With Industry 4.0 being unable to address and meet increased drive of personalization, the term Industry 5.0 was coined for addressing personalized manufacturing and empowering humans in manufacturing processes. The onset of the term Industry 5.0 is observed to have various views of how it is defined and what constitutes the reconciliation between humans and machines. This serves as the motivation of this paper in identifying and analyzing the various themes and research trends of what Industry 5.0 is using text mining tools and techniques. Toward this, the abstracts of 196 published papers based on the keyword “Industry 5.0” search in IEEE, science direct and MDPI data bases were extracted. Data cleaning and preprocessing were performed for further analysis to apply text min...

RICERCHE SCIENTIFICHE E METODI DELLA LORO REALIZZAZIONE: ESPERIENZA MONDIALE E REALTÀ DOMESTICHE

IntechOpen eBooks, 2020

This chapter focuses on the vision of one of the biggest changes that will mark our way to live: Industries 4.0. Our intention is to discuss its basics, the automation and improvements on the processes, the way to transform an small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into an Industry 4.0, some of the economic and educational aspects, return of the investment, etc. This topic is very extensive; nevertheless, our purpose is to give a current vision of the industry and also show the Industry 4.0's future trends. Furthermore, this chapter presents the process to migrate to Industry 4.0 until reaching to Society 5.0 and, in turn, includes a future version of Industry 5.0 that is expected to begin in 2020.