Running your company the smart way
How Industry 4.0 will change the way you do business
By Robert Boute
Professor of Operations Management
By Robin Kleer
Professor of Innovation Management
By Steve Muylle
Professor of Digital Strategy and Marketing
By Karlien Vanderheyden
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
By Ann Vereecke
Professor of Operations Management
Everyone is talking about Industry 4.0 – from the Internet of Things, additive manufacturing and the cloud through to artificial intelligence, augmented reality and blockchain. But what does it all mean in practice?
It’s not a question of if Industry 4.0 will drastically change the way we do business. It’s a question of when and how quickly. So how can you apply this technology in your business – not just to improve production and performance, but to make a difference for customers?
This white paper gives you the insight you need to get ahead of the game and prepare your organisation for the fourth industrial revolution.
Key insights:
1/ Back to the beginning
- Four industrial revolutions
- Where does the term Industry 4.0 come from?
2/ Defining Industry 4.0
- Four principles
3/ The role of technology
4/ Smart factories – the adoption of 4.0 technology inside factory walls
- Smart maintenance
5/ Smart supply chains – the adoption of 4.0 technology beyond the factory walls
- Smart logistics: collaborative shipping, synchromodality and deep reinforcement learning
6/ Smart products – taking the complete value chain into account
- The B2B2C perspective
7/ Smart people – the workforce of the future
- Connecting man and machine
- The growing importance of soft skills
8/ What’s next
Get in touch!
Ann Vereecke
Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management