The new evolution of the production and industrial process called Industry 4.0, and its related technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data analytics, and cyber–physical systems, among others, still have an unknown potential impact on sustainability and the environment. In this paper, we conduct a literature-based analysis to discuss the sustainability impact and challenges of Industry 4.0 from four different scenarios: deployment, operation and technologies, integration and compliance with the sustainable development goals, and long-run scenarios. From these scenarios, our analysis resulted in positive or negative impacts related to the basic production inputs and outputs flows: raw material, energy and information consumption and product and waste disposal. As the main results, we identified both positive and negative expected impacts, with some predominance of positives that can be considered positive secondary effects derived from Industry 4.0 activities. However, only through integrating Industry 4.0 with the sustainable development goals in an eco-innovation platform, can it really ensure environmental performance. It is expected that this work can contribute to helping stakeholders, practitioners and governments to advance solutions to deal with the outcomes emerging through the massive adoption of those technologies, as well as supporting the expected positive impacts through policies and financial initiatives.
ResumoA Educação a Distância é um importante movimento no contexto educacional que ganhou espaço recentemente devido ao impulso que recebeu com o desenvolvimento das ferramentas de informática e de comunicações. É nesse contexto que o presente trabalho se insere, abundância de recursos tecnológicos, rapidez nas comunicações, maior interatividade via internet e exigência de capacitação por parte do mercado de trabalho. O presente trabalho teve como objetivos: evidenciar a posição dos acadêmicos do ensino presencial sobre a metodologia de educação à distância; avaliar os pontos fortes e fracos da metodologia na opinião dos acadêmi-cos; avaliar a percepção dos acadêmicos, em relação às vantagens e desvantagens da metodologia, de educação a distância em relação ao ensino presencial. Foi realizada uma pesquisa com questionários semiestruturados com um grupo de 30 acadêmicos de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior. Com relação aos resultados obtidos, merece atenção a forma com que os acadêmicos receberam e se inseriram na dinâmica do ensino on line. A maioria dos alunos mostrou-se satisfeita com os resultados alcançados e com as possibilidades que a plataforma de ensino a distân-cia permite para a complementação do aprendizado.Verificou-se que os acadêmicos reconhecem a importância da Educação a Distância, mas preferem ainda o modelo tradicional do ensino presencial. Vale ressaltar que o trabalho trata de um estudo exploratório, onde foram levantadas questões sobre o assunto, as quais deverão ser mais bem exploradas e discutidas em outros
The research on Industry 4.0 is increasing in importance over the years due to the expectation that it represents a new industrial paradigm, increasing competitiveness to the industries that can adopt it. The objective of this paper is to study the main points of research on Industry 4.0, featured universities and research centers. Using methodology based on bibliographic review, we analyzed a total of 546 papers, which composed the proceedings of the International Conference Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), in 2014 held in Ajaccio (France), 2015 in Tokyo (Japan) and 2016 in Iguassu Falls (Brazil) and selected 39 papers to make this research. The results revealed that Industry 4.0 is increasing in importance, broadening the field of research; some suggestions for future research are presented.
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