Features of the ‘fourth industrial revolution', such as platforms, AI and machine learning, pose challenges for the application of regulatory rules, in the area of labour law as elsewhere. However, today's digital technologies have their origins in earlier phases of industrialisation, and do...

"This book explores how the Fourth Industrial Revolution has serious implications for how "leadership" is being exercised now and in the future, and how people and communities worldwide will live their lives throughout this revolutionary period. It also explores the digital technologies that are...

Industrie 4.0 and the Internet of Things have been positioned on the international stage as important initiatives of a promising future: Who is dealing in data from the digital factory? Germany has its “Plattform Industrie 4.0”, China “Made in China 2025” and the USA the “Industrial...

This book helps decision makers grasp the importance, and applicability to business, of the new technologies and extended connectivity of systems that underlie what is becoming known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution: technologies and systems such as artificial intelligence, machine learning,...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- About the Authors -- Part I Defining Smart Digital Manufacturing and Manufacturing 4.x -- Chapter 1 Introducing Manufacturing 4.x for Smart Digital Manufacturing -- 1.1 From Industry 4.0 to Manufacturing 4.x -- 1.2 Manufacturing...

Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: surf's up -- 2. Four great logistics waves -- 3. Three disruptive digital trends -- 4. Consumer logistics 1.0 -- 5. Consumer logistics 2.0 -- 6. 6 A sixth wave: personal logistics? -- Bibliography -- Index.