Forecasting Next Generation Manufacturing
Piller, Frank T. / Nitsch, Verena / Dyck, Marc van / Mertens, Alexander / Pütz, Sebastian / Lüttgens, Dirk Manufacturing companies have just begun to implement the concepts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) on a larger scale. Still, this area is characterized by a rapid pace of technological change, blurring boundaries between physical, digital, and biological systems, and a quickly changing growing political, economic, and social environment -- leading to high uncertainty in decision making and many questions about the future deve...