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Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0 Automation, Adaption and Manufacturing in Finland and Beyond

Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0

Mikael Collan  •  Karl-Erik Michelsen Editors

Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0 Automation, Adaption and Manufacturing in Finland and Beyond

Editors Mikael Collan School of Business and Management LUT University Lappeenranta, Finland

Karl-Erik Michelsen School of Business and Management LUT University Lappeenranta, Finland

ISBN 978-3-030-46102-7    ISBN 978-3-030-46103-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46103-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020. This book is an open access publication. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Preface

This book is a result of cross-disciplinary teamwork around a common theme, Manufacturing 4.0 and the technical, economic, and social issues that go with it. In vein with the original idea of Industry 4.0, put forth as a vision of a new kind of future for the industry that encompasses also the many societal and economic changes that come with technological change, this book studies the technological change in manufacturing and its possible transformative power on the society. Most importantly the message in the book is that Manufacturing 4.0 is not on