Forecasting Next Generation Manufacturing: Digital Shadows, Human-Machine Collaboration, and Data-driven Business Models (1st ed. 2022) (Contributions to Management Science)

By: Frank T. Piller and Verena Nitsch and Dirk Lüttgens and Alexander Mertens and Sebastian Pütz and Marc Van Dyck

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Synopsis: Manufacturing companies have just begun to implement the concepts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) on a larger scale. Still, this area is characterized by a rapid pace of technological change, blurring boundaries between physical, digital, and biological systems, and a quickly changing growing political, economic, and social environment -- leading to high uncertainty in decision making and many questions about the future development in this field. To provide guidance and inspiration for managers and academics on the future of digital manufacturing systems, this book presents the results of an extensive Delphi study on next-generation manufacturing systems, with a projection period of up to 2030. We analyzed almost 2000 quantitative estimations and more than 600 qualitative arguments from a large panel of industrial and academic experts from Europe, North America, and Asia. The book describes each of the 24 projections in detail, offering current case study examples and related research, as well as implications for policymakers, firms, and individuals. The empirical results also allowed us to build scenarios for the most probable future along the dimensions of governance, organization, capabilities, and interfaces from both a company-internal and an external (network) perspective.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031077340
Related ISBNs:: 9783031077333
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 09/02/22
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Business and Finance, Technology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Frank T. Piller
Edited by:: Verena Nitsch
Edited by:: Dirk Lüttgens
Edited by:: Alexander Mertens
Edited by:: Sebastian Pütz
Edited by:: Marc Van Dyck