Industry 4.0 and the Road to Sustainable Steelmaking in Europe Recasting the Future

This open access book gathers original contributions focused on the transition of the European steel industry to Industry 4.0. It not only investigates how Industry 4.0 can enhance productivity, cost-saving, and sustainability in the steel industry but also helps to comprehend its broad consequences...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stroud, Dean, 1968- (-)
Otros Autores: Schröder, Antonius Johannes, Antonazzo, Luca, Behrend, Clara, Colla, Valentina, Goti, Aitor, Weinel, Martin
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2024.
Edición:1st ed. 2024.
Colección:Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering,
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009799921506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Social and Technological Transformation of the European Steel Industry
  • European Steel Industry – A Trade Union Perspective
  • Effects of Industry 4.0 on workforce and employment: a novel strategy to identify new skills requirements of the steel sector
  • Steel Industry Automation and Incremental Change
  • Robotic systems in the European Steel Industry: state-of-art and use cases
  • Digitalisation - impacts on the workforce, challenges and current status of projects from the perspective of the cold rolling industry
  • The impact of the new technologies on the workforce in the steel industry
  • Combining technological and social innovation
  • Attracting talents to the steel industry
  • Development of Skills Adjustment and Training within a Social Innovation Process
  • Recruitment and training: the ‘effect’ of digitalisation
  • Preparing for a Digital Steel Industry
  • Conclusion.