Industry 4.0 for SMEs Challenges, Opportunities and Requirements
This open access book explores the concept of Industry 4.0, which presents a considerable challenge for the production and service sectors. While digitization initiatives are usually integrated into the central corporate strategy of larger companies, smal
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Industry 4.0 for SMEs Challenges, Opportunities and Requirements
Industry 4.0 for SMEs
Dominik T. Matt · Vladimír Modrák · Helmut Zsifkovits Editors
Industry 4.0 for SMEs Challenges, Opportunities and Requirements
Editors Dominik T. Matt Faculty of Science and Technology Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Bolzano, Italy
Vladimír Modrák Department of Manufacturing Management Technical University of Košice Prešov, Slovakia
Helmut Zsifkovits Chair of Industrial Logistics Montanuniversität Leoben Leoben, Austria
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie SkłodowskaCurie grant agreement No. 734713 (Project title: SME 4.0—Industry 4.0 for SMEs).
Preface
The term Industry 4.0 describes the ongoing revolution of manufacturing industry around the world. Large companies in particular have rapidly embraced the challenges of Industry 4.0 and are currently working intensively on the introduction of the corresponding enabling technologies. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face the hurdle of possessing neither human
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