scholarly journals Internal Determinants in the Field of RPA Technology Implementation on the Example of Selected Companies in the Context of Industry 4.0 Assumptions

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Piotr Marciniak ◽  
Robert Stanisławski
Keyword(s):  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
The One ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Selection Of

As part of the assumptions of Industry 4.0. many modern technologies are developing. One of them is robotic process automation (RPA). It allows the replacement of human labor with robots, thus increasing the production capacity of enterprises. In practice, the implementation of RPA takes place through two solutions (models): using the services of an external entity offering RPA (service insourcing) or creating your own center of excellence (CoE). The use of both solutions is influenced by numerous conditions (determinants), among which we can mention benefits on the one hand and threats on the other. They are very different and depend on the model used. In this article, attempts were made to identify and determine their impact on the selection of the appropriate model from the point of view of the company (the purpose of the article). The research used two cases of entities implementing RPA on the basis of opposites, i.e., two different models, in which the discussed technology is treated as an important element of their automation. The achieved results indicate that there is no universalism, and their dominant feature is individualism concerning both enterprises and the solutions they implement. This is undoubtedly the effect of the currently too shallow RPA market, as well as the small number of entities using technologies based on intelligent systems. This is a serious research gap, which along with RPA growth will be reduced as a result of more and more intensive research in this field.

scholarly journals Uncertainties, Knowledge, and Futures in Foresight Studies — A Case of the Industry 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-33
Author(s):  
Andrzej Magruk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The One ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Future Management

The main purpose of this publication is an attempt to treat phenomenon of uncertainty as the one of main research facility in future studies and not as the background for future research — by answering the following research question: “What is the methodical relation among the scope of the uncertainty phenomenon vs. levels of knowledge and types of the future in the foresight approach?”. The study uses the results of the analysis and criticism of the literature as the main research method. On this basis were performed deductive reasoning. Proposed by the author of the paper types of future and scope of uncertainty allowed to define the author’s scale of knowledge levels. This paper has attempted to draw together three methodological fields: uncertainty, foresight, and knowledge. Author analysed complex relations among above areas on the basis of their characteristic which are author’s extensions of existing concepts available in the literature. In the author’s opinion conclusions from the results presented in the article can be a valuable contribution to the development of the area of management in the area of future management. In management of complex systems (such as Industry 4.0), from the foresight methodological point of view, it seems relevant to determine which specific uncertainties can be managed by which classes of foresight methods, and which foresight methods by what level of knowledge, will be appropriate for the analysis of a specific types of future. According to the author, the results of research presented in the publication may be used in creating research methodology of technological foresight projects and as a complementary element of research devoted to the issues of development of modern technologies, which include Industry 4.0.

scholarly journals Host Society and Migrants / Searching for the Languages of Mutual Description

2020 ◽  
pp. 612-622
Author(s):  
Konstantin V. Grigorichev ◽  
Natalia P. Koptseva
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Host Society ◽  
The One ◽  
Migrant Groups ◽  
Selection Of

The article provides a selection of studies on the problem of developing languages for the mutual description of migrants and the host society. The authors consider the problem, on the one hand, through the prism of heterogeneity of the language for describing migrants in the host society, and on the other, through the absence of legitimate representatives of migrants representing them in the dialogue with the Russian society. It offers a point of view on the reasons for the dominance of ethnic discourse in the description of migrants and the migration situation, and wide pluralism in the use of ethnic categories in describing migration. It is shown that migrants do not participate in the development of rhetoric of organisations recognised by the authorities as their legitimate representatives. The article raises the question about the formation of new representatives of migrant groups, whose legitimacy is based not on powers delegated by the authorities, but on recognition by horizontal communities. It is assumed that, on the basis of the network representations, a mechanism is being formed for the humanisation of the image of migrants through the return of subjectivity in communication with the host society

scholarly journals Technical parameters of high speed lines as the determinant for selection of rolling stock

2018 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 06007
Author(s):  
Jan Raczyński
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
Rail Vehicle ◽  
Railway Infrastructure ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of

Choosing a high-speed rail vehicle depends on many factors. On the one hand, there are requirements for ensuring the quality of service for passengers, on the other hand, there are constraints resulting from the parameters of available infrastructure. Also a relation of the benefit and financial costs associated with the purchase and the operation of rolling stock is essential. Technical characteristics of vehicles selected for operating a particular system is a compromise between the three groups of requirements. In this article technical parameters of railway infrastructure and rolling stock are classified and then analysed from the TSI requirements point of view.

scholarly journals Upgrading Italy's Industrial Capacity: Industry 4.0 across Regions and Sectors

Sinappsi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-35
Author(s):  
Valeria Cirillo ◽  
Lucrezia Fanti ◽  
Andrea Mina ◽  
Andrea Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Italian Economy ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
Econometric Tests ◽  
The One ◽  
Innovation Patterns ◽  
Firm Survey

How are Industry 4.0 investments distributed across Italian regions and sectors? Which are the main drivers of diffusion? To address these questions, in this study we exploit rich firm survey data on the adoption of the new digital technologies and examine their adoption patterns. On the one hand, we produce novel insights into the drivers of structural change in the Italian economy, and on the other, we provide evidence on the technological upgrading of Italy's production capacity that is relevant for policy. The results of econometric tests on region-sector pairs indicate that corporate governance characteristics, innovation patterns and type of industrial relations are significant predictors of the uneven regional and sectoral distribution of Industry 4.0 investments.

scholarly journals Conceitualidade x realidade, a conjuntura atual para a implementação da indústria 4.0 no Brasil

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 1423-1440
Author(s):  
Vinícius Radetzke da Silva ◽  
Alicy Ferreira Lopes dos Santos ◽  
Ermilo Sampaio Limana ◽  
Vityano Buzata Tambara ◽  
Ana Carolina Cozza Josende da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Technological Evolution ◽  
World Production ◽  
International Partnerships ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose: To analyze the impact of technological evolution on industrial production capacity and how Industry 4.0 can be developed for the Brazilian industrial scenario.Design/methodology/approach:Data collection was through the selection of studies - scientific articles, books, dissertation, among others - current and relevant on the topic, through an exploratory descriptive research, as well as the use of an electronic platform such as Google Scholar, Journals CAPES, Scielo and Scopus. The analysis took place through reading, comparison and discussion between the different authors and studies found.Findings: The results evidenced, show that the Brazilian context falls short of what would make the country a player of world production. The roles in this process process an integrating responsibility between governments, companies and international partnerships, for a more agile adaptation to the latest world production model.Practical Implications: Investments by political-governmental segments are still ineffective, compromising the generation of wealth, taxes and fees in Brazilian companies.Social Implications: Thematic contemporary to the reality of the country, in order to offer new alternatives for research and knowledge to be used by companies, academics and society.Originality/Value: It consists of investigating the current level of industry 4.0 dimensions in the Brazilian context, and proportional improvement for national companies in global markets.

scholarly journals Recycling 4.0 - Digitalization as a Key for the Advanced Circular Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 652-660
Author(s):  
Lars Kintscher ◽  
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Sebastian Lawrenz ◽  
Hendrik Poschmann ◽  
Priyanka Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recycling Process ◽  
The One ◽  
Modern Technologies

Recycling will become more and more important in the future. To fulfill the requirements of a more efficient recycling process and thus enable an eco-friendly handling of resources, modern technologies can be used. One of these modern technology streams is called Industry 4.0. This paper presents an approach to how Industry 4.0 can be integrated into recycling processes, resulting in Recycling 4.0. Electric vehicles and their traction batteries are used as an example. To enable a more efficient disassembly and recycling of these traction batteries, information about the battery is exchanged along the supply chain. A key issue is the development of a marketplace to exchange the information. Another topic is the connection of a robot to the information marketplace. On the one hand, the robot can get information from the marketplace for decision-making in the disassembly of traction batteries. On the other hand, the robotic system is capable of analyzing the condition of the battery, so it is also possible to transmit information from the robot to the information marketplace.

scholarly journals The irony as a sense of reality (on the example of the short stories of O. Konyskyi)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-130
Author(s):  
Nadiia Boiko
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Sense Of Reality ◽  
Empirical Research Methods ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

The article deals with the analysis of the short stories by O. Konyskyi from the point of view of irony functioning in them. S. Kierkegaard compared irony to divine madness, which, like Tamerlane, did not leave a stone unturned, because “in the irony, negativity takes precedence over positivity, freedom over necessity”. In the modern literary criticism, irony is seen, on the one hand, as an aesthetic category, the characteristic feature of which is the lack of care to make the reader laugh; it is primarily a matter of marking of the author’s perception of reality (“Ironic meaning” by S. Pokhodnia). On the other hand — irony is viewed as a stylistic figure, which is based on allegory and which testifies to the potential of the individual authorial style. However, in both cases, to understand the true meaning of an ironic statement, it is necessary to have a context, which is its main semantic background. In a number of works by O. Konyskyi, irony serves as a means to express certain traits of character and behaviour of the character and is exemplified through epithets and comparisons. Less often, it becomes a means to construct the text and a plot-forming factor, as is in the story “And we are people!” The subject of the study is irony as a complex (two-tier) message, the purpose to understand the hidden content of which requires context. The object of the literary analysis is comprised of the short stories by O. Konyskyi, that have not yet been considered from this point of view. The latter fact informs the novelty of the study. The purpose of the article is to clarify the place and the role of irony in the bulk of short stories by this writer. The outlined goal determines reaching the following objectives: to trace the dynamics of the apperiance of different types of irony in the short stories by O. Konyskyi; to identity the dependence of the frequency and the form the ironic expression; to find out the influence of the author’s ironic approach on the form the work. As a result of the analysis by means of the approaches of biographical, historical-literary and empirical research methods, it was possible to find out: despite the fact that irony is not a dominant feature of O. Konyskyi’s worldview, in his short stories works with textual irony stand out.

scholarly journals P. Kulish's "Ukraine" and folk dumas: linguistic and poetic analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-104
Author(s):  
Juliya Dyadyshcheva-Rosovetska
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Verbal Creativity ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
The Witch ◽  
The One ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Selection Of

The article is devoted to the study of Panteleimon Kulish's search for a productive model of development of the new Ukrainian literary language and ways of its enrichment, in particular at the expense of the language of folklore as an inexhaustible source. A linguistic and poetic analysis of Panteleimon Kulish's large-scale work "Ukraine: From the Beginning of Ukraine to Khmelnytsky's Father" and its comparison with some elements of the linguopoetics of folk dumas of the classical repertoire are presented. The real problems that arise in P. Kulish’s creative work when he tries to achieve a harmonious combination of authentic folk thought words and expressions and stylized author's innovations are demonstrated. The article shows the difficulties in the artist's selection of colored ethnographically linguistic material needed to create a folklore duma's color. The shortcomings of combining the author's elements with fragments of real dumas within one work of art are revealed. This technique is compared with the approach of Taras Shevchenko, who turned to "stylization" or "improvisation" in the folk spirit (M. Kotsyubynska) and isolated the resulting structures structurally, putting in the mouths of certain characters - the Blind or the Witch. The fundamental difference in the approaches to verbal creativity is differentiated on the one hand by the bearer of the oral-poetic tradition, which is only within the possibilities of Ukrainian folklore, and on the other - by the artist of the XIX century - its user, who perceives the folklore tradition not "from within" but "from outside" and addresses the entire literary heritage - domestic and world, as well as folklore - his own and other peoples. The counterproductiveness of some authorial experiments of P. Kulish on dumas samples is illustrated. Their results cannot be considered satisfactory due to illogicality, low intellectual saturation or from an aesthetic point of view. A somewhat excessive exoticism of the author's innovations has been recorded, which attracts the reader's undue attention to them and distorts his perception of the artistic fabric of the poetic work. The question of the specifics of the experimental text of P. Kulish is formulated. What prevails here is the scientific reconstruction of lost fragments of true dumas, the restoration of time-destroyed parts of the national epic, or the demonstration of the author's creative ability to practice folklore improvisation in a work of art. Depending on the answers, a comprehensive assessment can be made.

scholarly journals Dominium terrae? The Rise of the West during the Age of Discovery as a possible analytical paradigm in history teaching in Germany and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 159-184
Author(s):  
Maximilian Veigel ◽  
Diego Miguel-Revilla
Keyword(s):  
History Education ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The West ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Age Of Discovery ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of

This article provides an in-depth analysis and discussion of the global-historical theory of the so-called Rise of the West during the Early Modern Age and the commonly named Age of Discovery. This theory is covered from the point of view of history education in order to question and provide a criticial examination of the framework. On the one hand, the controversial state of research of the topic is outlined, focusing on the main theoretical debates and some of the most noteworthy ideas under discussion. On the other hand, a discussion is also provided regarding some of the special requirements and essential conditions for an implementation of the idea of the Rise of the West in the curriculum. These notions are linked to both the traditional and current narratives that can be found in the German and Spanish national contexts. From this point of view, the politics of history of both nations are outlined, and, in addition, in order to provide some exemplifications, a selection of history textbooks from previous decades have been also examined in order to analyze the way some of the narratives and these themes are presented. A series of categories, including historical myths, and the Rise of the West as a special category, as well as its institutional dimensions are also discussed in order to showcase the potential of the theory and some of the shortcomings that were detected from the perspective of history education.

scholarly journals Some Refinements of the Semi-Input-Output Method

1966 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Tinbergen
Keyword(s):  
National Income ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Output Ratio ◽  
The Subject ◽  
International Sector ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of

The semi-input-output method has been proposed by the author as a substi¬tute for what was formerly called the estimation of the indirect effects of invest¬ment projects. Essentially it rests on assumption I that a country must aim at an "ideal development process", meaning a growth process which at no time shows unutilized production capacity. Furthermore, the method rests on assumption II that a distinction can be made between national or domestic activities (industries in the widest sense or sectors) on the one hand and international activities on the other hand. By definition the products of the former cannot, for technological or cultural reasons, be imported or exported. Examples have been given elsewhere [1]. Together with assumption I it follows from II that the productive capacity in the national sectors equals the demand for their products. With a given develop¬ment of national income the growth of the national sectors is practically deter¬mined. The choice of new sectors to be developed must mainly be made among the international sectors, where those showing the highest comparative advantages must be chosen, if with given sacrifices of scarce factors a maximum of result is wanted. The criterion for selection of sectors will depend on the aims of policy as well as on the relative scarcity of factors. Its precise content is independent of the subject to be discussed here. For simplicity's sake we will assume that the criterion is to prefer sectors with the lowest capital-output ratio. This choice only effects the later portions of this article. The emphasis here is on something else, namely that it is not possible, if we accept assumption I, to add to the equip¬ment of the nation a factory or set of factories in one international sector only, but that simultaneously with such an "international" investment a number of complementary investments in domestic sectors are necessary, in order to keep all capacities fully utilized. We will call the necessary combination of investments a bunch; it always consists of an investment in one international sector combined with a number of investments in all national sectors.

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