scholarly journals Opportunities, risks and challenges for actual key players of commodities production into the new wave of industry 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 898 ◽  
pp. 012051
Author(s):  
L C Simion ◽  
S Avasilcai
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Key Players

Breathing New Life into the German Utility Model System in the Industry 4.0 Era

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiko Takenaka
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Model System ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Utility Model ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Statutory License

Abstract Key players of Industry 4.0, high-tech firms and individual inventors, do not use patents to exclude others due to the open source philosophy and the risk of a counter-infringement assertion. These key players have developed new uses of patents: (1) defensive use to avoid litigation and (2) proactive use to promote open innovation. They want to be rewarded with the freedom to operate instead of monopoly profits through exclusivity. To better serve the key players in light of these new uses, the German utility model system should be reformed by incorporating a statutory license to implement the open source philosophy and adopting a simplified claiming and disclosure format. The current German translation requirement should be removed to globalize the system.

scholarly journals Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124162110267
Author(s):  
Ned Barker ◽  
Carey Jewitt
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
The Social

“Industry 4.0” marks the advent of a new wave of industrial robotics designed to bring increased automation to “extreme” touch practices and enhance productivity. This article presents an ethnography of touch in two industrial settings using fourth generation industrial robots (a Glass Factory and a Waste Management Center) to critically explore the social and sensorial implications of such technologies for workers. We attend to manifestations of dirt and danger as encountered through describing workers’ sensory experiences and identity formation. The contribution of the article is two-fold. The first is analytical through the development of three “filters” to grasp the complexity of the social and sensorial dynamics of touch in situ while tracing dispersed mediating effects of the introduction of novel technologies. The second is empirical, teasing out themes embedded in the sociosensorial dynamics of touch that intersect with gender, ethnicity, and class and relate to the technological mediation of touch.

scholarly journals The Steps to be Taken in Higher Education for Successful Adaptation to Industry 4.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-577
Author(s):  
Nazlı Yüceol
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
International Standards ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Knowledge Competencies ◽  
Future Of Education

The progress of societies, their development, and their ability to compete economically depend on education. Education is both affected by changes in all these areas and affects them. The desired results from the new wave of industrial revolution called industry 4.0 can only be achieved through education as well. Industry 4.0 is the new industrial revolution that first appeared in Germany and includes applications such as autonomous vehicles, wearable technologies, artificial intelligence applications, block chain, and cloud computing systems. With the innovations brought by the revolution, it has been changing the ways of doing business and the competencies required from employees. Industry 4.0 requires university students to have new knowledge, competencies and skills before graduation, the workforce to acquire new skills, and the restructuring and transformation of higher education to achieve all of these. Thus, industry 4.0 is reshaping the future of education. This review study focuses on the connection of higher education and industry 4.0 by examining the national and international literature. It aims to present a general assessment of the steps to be taken in higher education in parallel with the requirements of industry 4.0 and the new competencies that should be acquired by graduates. It is concluded with some suggestions about what should be done regarding the international standards in order for the higher education curricula to adapt to the existing processes and changes, to train human resources in accordance with the conditions and demands of the age, what new competencies the workforce should have, and the steps to be followed regarding industry 4.0.

Blockchain Technology in the Automotive Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-308
Author(s):  
Atakan Gerger
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Key Players

Even though the automotive industry was among the key players of the industrial revolution in the last century, striking transformations experienced in other sectors did not have significant repercussions on this industry until a few years ago. However, general advancements in technology and Industry 4.0 have presented new opportunities for the reconfiguration of the business environment. Developments in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, in particular, have attracted the attention to what is known as blockchain technology. Several successful examples of blockchain applications in different industries have tempted the automotive industry to be rapidly involved with efforts in this direction. As a consequence, the application of the blockchain technology to highly diverse areas in the automotive industry was set in motion. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the application of blockchain technology in the automotive industry, to analyse its advantages and disadvantages, and to demonstrate its successful in general.

The Transformation of Supplier-Client Relationship

2021 ◽  
pp. 326-344
Author(s):  
Ghassan Wahbe
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
External Relationships ◽  
Reduced Costs ◽  
Business Relations

Industry 4.0 has affected everything around us. Today we have entered an era where we must move our focus away from traditional business relations and shift instead to solutions that support the virtual enterprise in which independent businesses align to share skills and resources to sharpen their responses to external business opportunities. Manufacturers, suppliers, and clients need to work jointly to create value and share risk instead of settings tight conditions, KPIs that are hard to implement, and start blaming each other. Business solutions are representing a new wave that is built on technology to overcome the inward-looking nature of old systems and promises a great wave of efficiency and reduced costs by streamlining the management processes of external relationships that is based on trust and governed by innovative contracts. This chapter is describing a real virtual enterprise from the business showing how digital transformation is changing the supplier-client contracting relationship.

scholarly journals An Overview of Digitalisation in Conventional Supply Chain Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 292 ◽  
pp. 01013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarath Menon ◽  
Satya Shah
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Competitive Markets ◽  
New Wave ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Chain Management

Rapidly growing technology and a digitally focused world have opened the door for a new wave of automation to enter the work force in the industry. Industry 4.0 plays a vital role in Supply chain management (SCM) which requires constant research and improvements due to high demand to meet their global competitive markets. As part of achieving this high demands, SCM has been incorporating the latest evolving technologies by digitalizing and automating themselves to increase their financial profits and competitiveness in the market. This paper aims to have a review on Supply Chain Management (SCM) and latest technologies in Industry 4.0 revolution.

Youth Development in Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽  
Ingrid Schoon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Reciprocal Interactions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Players

A series of six papers on “Youth Development in Europe: Transitions and Identities” has now been published in the European Psychologist throughout 2008 and 2009. The papers aim to make a conceptual contribution to the increasingly important area of productive youth development by focusing on variations and changes in the transition to adulthood and emerging identities. The papers address different aspects of an integrative framework for the study of reciprocal multiple person-environment interactions shaping the pathways to adulthood in the contexts of the family, the school, and social relationships with peers and significant others. Interactions between these key players are shaped by their embeddedness in varied neighborhoods and communities, institutional regulations, and social policies, which in turn are influenced by the wider sociohistorical and cultural context. Young people are active agents, and their development is shaped through reciprocal interactions with these contexts; thus, the developing individual both influences and is influenced by those contexts. Relationship quality and engagement in interactions appears to be a fruitful avenue for a better understanding of how young people adjust to and tackle development to productive adulthood.

New wave machine

Nature ◽  
2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Ball
Keyword(s):  
New Wave
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