Industry 4. 0 : Challenges, Trends, and Solutions in Management and Engineering

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Emerging technologies and supply chain management: Maneuvering in current areas of tensions -- Contents -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Data and method -- 1.2.1. Tension framework -- 1.2.2. Research process -- 1.2.2.1. Structured literature review -- 1.2.2.2. Semi-structured interviews -- 1.3. Results -- 1.3.1. Tension framework -- 1.3.2. Digital supply chain management tensions -- 1.3.2.1. Strategy and business model tensions -- 1.3.2.2. Operating model and execution tensions -- 1.3.2.3. Organizational tensions -- 1.3.2.4. IT and data tensions -- 1.3.2.5. Technology tensions -- 1.4. Implications for practice and research -- 1.4.1. Implications for practice -- 1.4.2. Implications for research and limitations -- 1.5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Industry 4.0 creating a buzz in the western hemisphere: But watch out for China pulling into the fast lane -- Contents -- 2.1. Industry 4.0: Hype or hope -- 2.2. Principles of Industry 4.0 -- 2.2.1. Next stages of development ahead -- 2.2.2. Source of remarkable fascination -- 2.2.3. Economic boundaries becoming blurred -- 2.2.4. Cost-cutting possibilities -- 2.2.5. More than narrow-minded cost-cutting focus -- 2.2.6. Challenges at technical, economic, legal, and organisational part -- 2.2.7. Expectations sometimes disappointed -- 2.3. Various business ideas -- 2.3.1. Market still in its infancy -- 2.3.2. A wide range of entities -- 2.3.3. … and a wide range for applications -- 2.4. China's way promising -- 2.4.1. Economical structures promote leapfrogging -- 2.4.2. Huge potential waiting to be harvested -- 2.4.3. Impulses laid by politics -- 2.4.4. Policies leads to first outcomes -- 2.4.5. Highly heterogeneous regions.