Industry 4.0 Is Not Just Digital Change, But It Is Revolution

Thomas Steckenreiter, Thorsten Pötter, Claus Riehle
JournalIndustrie 4.0 Management
Issue Volume 34, 2018, Edition 2, Pages 43-47
Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.30844/I40M18-2_43-47
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Abstract

The story behind “Industry 4.0” has a much bigger scope as it is talked about, according to the authors particularly in the management of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For this reason the paper on one hand lists the essential prerequisites for Industry 4.0, on the other hand it describes the features of the “Digitalisation” which make the upcoming move revolutionary. A consequent digitalisation of processes in organisations in terms of automation takes away people’s effort for decision-making as well as semi-autonomous, networked artificial intelligence (AI) does. This facilitates and irritates participants of organisation equally. The digital transformation will have consequences for production and organisation therefore, i.e. this change will influence technology and corporate culture.

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