Purpose: Industry 4.0 represents a special challenge for businesses in general and for SMEs in particular. The study at hand will examine companies' awareness, readiness and capability to meet this challenge taking into account the special role of SMEs Design/methodology/approach: The results of...

Industrial transformation -- Engineering and manufacturing transformation -- Technological innovation of industry 3.0 to industry 5.0 -- Transformation in automotive sector -- Transformation in hi-tech electronics industry -- Transformation in process and industrial manufacturing sector --...

The impending digital transformation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution holds the potential to redefine the very basis of our materials-reliant industrial economy. Enabled by the internet of things, a new model of growth gradually gaining independence from finite resource extraction is...