Industry 4.0 is a challenge for today’s businesses. It’s a concept that encompasses the technological innovations of automation, control, and information technology, as it’s applied to manufacturing processes. It’s a new topic that recently emerged in academia and industry, with few books that target both management and engineering. This book will cover the new advances and the way to manage competitive organizations. The chapters will include terms of theory, evidence, and/or methodology, and significantly advance social scientific research.
This book:
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Focuses on the latest and most recent research findings occurring on the topic of Industry 4.0
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Presents the ways companies around the world are facing today's technological challenges
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Assists researchers and practitioners in selecting the correct options and strategies to manage competitive organizations
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Provides recent advances in international studies
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Encompasses the main technological innovations in the fields of automation, control, and information technology applied to the manufacturing processes
Industry 4.0: Challenges, Trends, and Solutions in Manangment and Engineering is designed to increase the knowledge and effectiveness of all managers and engineers in all organizations and activity sectors.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Emerging Technologies and Supply Chain Management : Maneuvering in Current Areas of Tensions
Chapter 2 : Industry 4.0 Creating a Buzz in The Western Hemisphere : But Watch Out for China Pulling into the Fast Lane
Chapter 3 : Smart Manufacturing Based on Digital Twin Technologies
Chapter 4 : Industry 4.0 in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises : A Literature Review on Research Clusters
Chapter 5 : The Role of Industry 4.0 on the Association Between Customers’ and Suppliers’ Involvement and Performance Improvement
Chapter 6 : Fundamental Changes in the Organisational Processes : Industry 4.0 Case Study
Chapter 7 : Maturity Level Assessment for Industry 4.0 Integration into Lean Manufacturing
Chapter 8 : Human Resource Management in Industry 4.0 : A Brief Trip through Literature
Index
