Die Vierte Industrielle Revolution - Der Weg in ein wertschaffendes Produktionsparadigma

Wenn im Zusammenhang mit Industrie 4.0 immer wieder von der 4. Industriellen Revolution gesprochen wird, macht es Sinn, zunächst einmal einen Blick auf die vergangenen drei Revolutionen zu werfen, zu analysieren, was in diesen unterschiedlichen Phasen passiert ist und wie diese Revolutionen aufeinander aufbauen

Evolution of 3C Cyber-Physical Systems Architecture for Industry 4.0

International audienceCyber-Physical System (CPS) is considered as the emerging component for Industry 4.0, and the state-of-the art and standard CPS architecture playing the major role to understand the nature of the industrial landscape. The key problem with traditional CPS architectures is that they are not up-to-mark and convincing to fulfill the needs of smart industries and merely considering vertical and horizontal integration with three components (i.e., human, cyber and physical components) integration, but lacking to adopt, discuss and highlight the key interfacing elements which are very vital for Industry 4.0. So, to remedy these problems and bridging the gap this paper proposes to enhance the 3C CPS architecture based on the traditional 3C one for industry4.0 by adopting the main interfacing elements such as connectors, protocols, and sub elements, for example, human, cyber and physical parts. Hence, it can be said that the proposed enhanced 3C CPS architecture is playing a significant role and will be considered as a guideline and application for future smart manufacturing CPS systems and industries

Managerial challenges of Industry 4.0: an empirically backed research agenda for a nascent field

The increasing intelligence of products and systems, their intra-company cross-linking and their cross-company integration into value creation networks is referred to as Industry 4.0. Academics and practitioners, largely agreeing on the global importance of this proclaimed industrial revolution, have published many contributions on the topic. Research, however, is rather focused on investigating single technologies in quite specific application domains and largely neglects the profound managerial challenges underlying Industry 4.0. Given the recent plea for a more active contribution from the management science community, we strive to establish Industry 4.0 as a challenging but promising field for management research, and aim to assist scholars in engaging with the topic. Therefore, we first gather and analyze extant contributions by means of a systematic literature review and synthesize the information gained into 18 managerial challenges of Industry 4.0 falling into six interrelated clusters: (1) strategy and analysis, (2) planning and implementation, (3) cooperation and networks, (4) business models, (5) human resources and (6) change and leadership. Considering that Industry 4.0 is still an emerging topic and publications may therefore not always be found in highly ranked journals, we aimed to increase the confidence in our findings and triangulated our data by conducting an online survey of industry experts and academics that allows us to qualify the identified challenges in terms of importance and future research need. On this basis, we present an empirically backed research agenda and suggest fruitful avenues for future research in three basic categories: practice-enhancing research, knowledge-enhancing research, and high-impact research