Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0

<p>This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. &nbsp;Together the material presented allows the reader to develop a holistic picture of where the manufacturing industry and the parts of the society that depend on it may be going in the future. Manufacturing 4.0 is not only a technical change, nor is it a purely technically driven change, but it is a societal change that has the potential to disrupt the way societies are constructed both in the positive and in the negative.</p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars researching manufacturing, technological innovation, innovation management and industry 4.0.</p><p></p><p></p>