Smart industry - better management / edited by Tanya Bondarouk (University of Twente, The Netherlands)and Miguel R. Olivas-Luján (Pennsylvania Western University, USA).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Reflections of understanding Smart Industry / Milou Habraken -- Chapter 2. Smart business and the social value of AI / Agata Leszkiewicz, Tina Hormann, and Manfred Krafft -- Chapter 3. Personality Development in Higher Education in the Era of Industry 4.0 Comparing educational practices and philosophies in Industry 1.0 and Industry 4.0 / Klaas Stek -- Chapter 4. Ambidexterity as the response of Smart Industry 4.0 - towards better HR practices / Sylwia Przytula, Katarzyna Tracz-Krupa, and Susane Rank -- Chapter 5. Cross-docking: Current Research versus industry practice and Industry 4.0 adoption / Fabian Akkerman, Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Martijn Mes, and Taco Spitters -- Chapter 6. Human-robot collaboration in a Smart Industry context: Does HRM matter? / Marie Molitor and Maarten Renkema -- Chapter 7. Accessing and integrating distant capabilities in Smart Industry projects / Ednilson Bernardes and Hervé Legenvre -- Chapter 8. Decision-support tools for Smart transition to circular economy / Devrim Murat Yazan, Guido van Capelleveen, and Luca Fraccascia -- Chapter 9. Supporting utility mapping with a deep learning driven analysis tool / Christian Versloot, Maria Iacob, and Klaas Sikkel.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Smart industry requires better management. As industrial and production systems are future-proofed, becoming smart and interconnected through use of new manufacturing and product technologies, work is advancing on improving product needs, volume, timing, resource efficiency, and cost, optimally using supply chains. Presenting innovative, evidence-based, and cutting-edge case studies, with new conceptualizations and viewpoints on management, Smart Industry, Better Management explores concepts in product systems, use of cyber physical systems, digitization, interconnectivity, and new manufacturing and product technologies. Contributions to this volume highlight the high degree of flexibility in people management, production, including product needs, volume, timing, resource efficiency and cost in being able to finely adjust to customer needs and make full use of supply chains for value creation. Smart Industry, Better Management illustrates how industry can enabled by a more network-centric approach, making use of the value of information and the latest available proven manufacturing techniques.

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