Expected impact of industry 4.0 technologies on sustainable development: A study in the context of Brazil's plastic industry

Nara, Elpídio Oscar Benitez; Costa, Matheus Becker da; Baierle, Ismael Cristofer; Schaefer, Jones Luís; Benitez, Guilherme Brittes; Santos, Leonardo Moraes Aguiar Lima do; Benitez, Lisianne Brittes

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2020.07.018

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“…Moreover, the combination of Industry 4.0 technologies with improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean) can foster employee morale, reduce lead time, improve product quality, and customize products and reduce waste [77,91,92]. However, researchers have also identified potential negative impacts of Industry 4.0 on sustainability due to labor-saving technologies and increased production and consumption rate due to Industry 4.0 adoption, all of which can generate undesirable increases in resource consumption, income inequality, job losses and labor market disruption, and cybersecurity risks [74,93,94].…”

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Quality 4.0: The EFQM 2020 Model and Industry 4.0 Relationships and Implications

Fonseca

Amaral

Oliveira³

2021

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The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) 2020 model is a comprehensive and updated business model that encompasses sustainability and shares features with Industry 4.0, emphasizing transformation and improved organizational performance, yet with different theoretical and practical foundations. This research highlights the EFQM 2020 model’s novelties and its relationships/implications with the Industry 4.0 paradigm, contributing to the Quality 4.0 body of knowledge. Several linkages between the EFQM 2020 model and Industry 4.0 have been identified, namely, at the criteria level and guidance points, which can support successful digital transformation by combining quality and excellence with Industry 4.0. However, given the model’s generic and non-prescriptive nature, there is no specific reference to the nine Industry 4.0 pillars. Additionally, the links between direction and organizational culture and leadership criteria and driving performance and transformation are not evident, which might be a concern for business and technology transformation strategies. Managing knowledge, skills, and capabilities is critical for the successful adoption of Industry 4.0. The EFQM model adds a strategic and technologically unbiased perspective to Industry 4.0, providing an integrated business excellence framework for Quality 4.0. With empirical support of the model application, future research is recommended to develop this subject further.

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Section: I40 Reported Benefits Authormentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality 4.0: The EFQM 2020 Model and Industry 4.0 Relationships and Implications

Fonseca

Amaral

Oliveira³

2021

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“…I4.0 relation with sustainable development, sustainability and TBL, taking into account the social aspects [29,33,38,42,46,47].…”

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“…The synthesis of the obtained results and their comparison with the literature are presented in Table 5. [12,33,34,43,44,46,49,51] change in functioning of organizations greater digitization and robotization [35,40,47,49,50,52] employee's role in I4.0 not changed significantly [43,44] the most important skills/competences in I4.0 technical skills, problem solving, coding skills, analytical skills, ability to work under pressure [25,35,36,39,42,[44][45][46]48] employers' expectations towards employees diligence, problem-solving orientation, activity in finding solutions, ability to learn, openness to change [36,39,48] employees' fluctuations both hiring new employees and training the existing ones will take place [39] preparation employees for I4.0 courses & trainings related to I4.0, self-learning [36,50] technologies with the greatest impact on labor market AI, automatics & robotics [29,33] impact of I4.0 on labor market simple physical/manual works will be replaced or liquidated, health & safety will improve, possibility of job loss by low-skilled workers [12,26,[31][32][33]38,…”

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“…The most frequently described topics are related to the impact of I4.0 on the human work or labor market, the desired skills/competences and change in functioning of organizations in the I4.0 era. There are articles that discuss several issues related to the impact of I4.0 on employees [33,35,36,39,44,48] and those that deal with only one issue [25,29,30,34,37,38,45,47,51]. However, there is no publication that covers all the issues contained in Table 5.…”

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The Impact of Industry 4.0 on Employees—Insights from Australia

Ejsmont

2021

Sustainability

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Currently, Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is the most popular concept relating to changes in the functioning of industrial enterprises. Industry 4.0 has been discussed in the actual literature mainly from a technological perspective, overlooking social challenges regarding this fourth industrial revolution. The objective of this article is to diagnose the impact of I4.0 on employees. This aim will be achieved by (1) a literature review of existing research efforts, (2) conducting structured interviews, and (3) summarizing the current state of knowledge and providing a definition of further work. Scopus, Web of Science, and a set of specific keywords were used to select peer-reviewed articles showing evidence of the impact of I4.0 on employees/jobs in given countries or industries. After determining the current state of research in this area, it was decided to conduct structured interviews questionnaire in the country (Australia) and industry (horticulture), which had not been covered by the research in this topic so far. The main contribution of the article was the development and validation of a comprehensive research agenda on the impact of I4.0 on employees. The obtained results suggest that the impact of I4.0 on employees is significant, and the changes occur in many different categories related to human work. The impact of I4.0 was identified both at the macro (labor market) and micro (jobs) level.

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“…Visual and simulation technologies, such as AR and virtual reality (VR), provide one the most effective and safe ways of industrial training experience [45], enhancing the worker's role. Moreover, Nara et al [46] underlined the key role of virtual reality (VR) and AR in industry 4.0 as drivers for sustainable development, evidencing the substantial positive impacts on social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Nonetheless, as noted by Hallstedt et al [47], there is a need to define a mature decision support method able to combine qualitative sustainability assessment techniques with quantitative analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Reference Framework to Combine Model-Based Design and AR to Improve Social Sustainability

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Product and process digitalization is pervading numerous areas in the industry to improve quality and reduce costs. In particular, digital models enable virtual simulations to predict product and process performances, as well as to generate digital contents to improve the general workflow. Digital models can also contain additional contents (e.g., model-based design (MBD)) to provide online and on-time information about process operations and management, as well as to support operator activities. The recent developments in augmented reality (AR) offer new specific interfaces to promote the great diffusion of digital contents into industrial processes, thanks to flexible and robust applications, as well as cost-effective devices. However, the impact of AR applications on sustainability is still poorly explored in research. In this direction, this paper proposed an innovative approach to exploit MBD and introduce AR interfaces in the industry to support human intensive processes. Indeed, in those processes, the human contribution is still crucial to guaranteeing the expected product quality (e.g., quality inspection). The paper also analyzed how this new concept can benefit sustainability and define a set of metrics to assess the positive impact on sustainability, focusing on social aspects.

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Expected impact of industry 4.0 technologies on sustainable development: A study in the context of Brazil's plastic industry

Cited by 165 publications

References 123 publications

Quality 4.0: The EFQM 2020 Model and Industry 4.0 Relationships and Implications

Quality 4.0: The EFQM 2020 Model and Industry 4.0 Relationships and Implications

The Impact of Industry 4.0 on Employees—Insights from Australia

A Reference Framework to Combine Model-Based Design and AR to Improve Social Sustainability

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