Archives: E-Journale

The shortage of skilled labor is putting pressure on many manufacturing companies worldwide. While skilled labor is becoming scarcer in traditional industrialized economies, proper training is urgently needed in countries with high unemployment. But how to solve this challenge? Find out what makes learning factories so successful in this issue.

In this issue, articles detail how processes of change are handled successfully. Find out more about the key concepts behind this transition, from risk management to the resilience of business processes, to current trends like Artificial Intelligence and digital twins, as well as insights into individual sectors such as the automotive industry and agriculture.

While platforms in the consumer sector are widely established, they're yet to exhaust their potential in the industrial sector. The articles in this issue take a closer look at the various facets of industrial platform usage. This covers topics such as lean management, issues in vehicle manufacturing, and concerns around security and energy efficiency. For scientists and users wanting to understand more about the latest trends in Industry 4.0 platforms.

Alongside topics such as the circular economy and energy efficiency, software-supported process improvement has equally enormous potential in developing leaner, more effective procedures. In this issue of Industry 4.0 Science, find out which processes are particularly promising—be they digital decision-making support, the definition of a company purpose, intelligent recycling or innovative resource efficiency thanks to 3D printing processes.

Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory have become a real source of hope and are the technological answer to some of the biggest challenges of our time: sustainable production, global interconnections, intelligent exchange of knowledge. This special issue discusses research questions relating to process improvement, artificial intelligence and factory software.