Hannover Fair Research Articles

Significance of Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE): Mediating Its Role Between Industry 4.0 Implementation and Operational Excellence

The inception of advanced manufacturing technologies has led to a drastic increase in competition. The concept of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is coined by Germany during the Hannover fair in the year 2011 to handle the manufacturing complexities and dynamic customer demands. Unparalleled benefits of I4.0 implementation have urged the industries to work in this direction. There is a plethora of research available in the context of I4.0 technologies but its implementation, human factors, and ergonomics aspects are not so much explored and still under investigation. In the proposed research, factors affecting the I4.0 implementation are identified through an extensive literature review. Research questions and the hypotheses are formulated. The questionnaire is prepared; area experts from industries are contacted to collect the responses. Data is collected from 471 manufacturing industries. AMOS 22.0 is used to test the hypotheses. All factors including production and operations management, organizational and procedural are found to affect I4.0 implementation significantly. Also, human factors and ergonomics are found to mediate the relationship between I4.0 implementation and operational excellence. Practical implications to industrial managers and practitioners have been discussed. This will help them to analyze the bottlenecks and assess the organization's readiness toward the I4.0 implementation.

Exploring a Causal Loop Relationship between Lean Six Sigma and Insutry 4.0 Readiness: A Systematic Litearture Review

Industry 4.0, for the first time, were published by the Germany government at the 2011 Hannover Fair as part of its "High-Tech Strategy 2020 Action Plan" (Kagermann et al., 2013), with the support of rapid technological advances, will bring us to a transitional state of the technological revolution that will fundamentally change the way of life, work, and organizational relationships in dealing with one another (Klaus Schwab, 2016). Lean and Six Sigma are two of manufacturing tools that is used to improve manufacturing performance. Lean Manufacturing is known as "Toyota Way of Production" is developed by Toyota Motor Corporation, as the term of lean, it's derived from containing little or no fat (Merriam Webster, 2006). Meaning that, lean principle is a systematic approach that focus on identifying and reducing the waste or unnecessary excess as the core of continuous improvement (Junior, Olivera and Thadani, 2018). Whether Lean manufacturing focus on efficient production, Six Sigma focus on effective production. Six Sigma derived from statistics, using Greek symbol sigma which represent the standard deviation, from 0 to 6, where the smallest value means the highest deviation (Michael Brassard, Finn, Ginn, & Ritter, 2002). Keywords: Lean, Six Sigma, Industry 4.0, Maturity model, Manufacturing

A Blockchain-Based Recycling Platform Using Image Processing, QR Codes, and IoT System

The climate crisis is one of the most significant challenges of the twenty-first century. The primary cause of high carbon emissions is industrial production that relies on carbon-based energy sources such as fuel oil, paraffin, coal, and natural gas. One of the effective methods to minimize carbon emissions originating from the use of energy resources is using recycling systems. A blockchain-based recycling platform was developed in this regard, adhering to the basic principles of Industry 4.0, which Robert Bosch GmbH and Henning Kagermann’s working group described as an industrial strategy plan at the Hannover Fair in 2013. Concurrently, the recycling platform has set up an infrastructure that combines blockchain, AI, and IoT technologies for recycling objects. An IoT-based smart device was developed to collect recyclable objects. Thanks to the embedded artificial intelligence software and QR code sensor on the device, recyclable objects can be collected in different hoppers. In the laboratory studies, correct object recognition success was achieved at a rate of 98.2%.

Information System Project Development Management Ratio Set Assy GP Using Scrum Method

In April 2011, the term Industry 4.0 was introduced at the Hannover Fair. PT Yamaha Indonesia was an early adopter, implementing it in their piano manufacturing process. To achieve production targets, it is necessary to monitor the production series, including the assembly of piano components into a complete unit. SAP, a software platform, is used to improve efficiency, with one of its modules being K-STAFF, which has four derivative applications: K-Master, K-Ticket, K-Score, and K-Tiptop. However, the current production process is monitored through scanning input using a SAP derivative application, which is not visualized in the production area, leading to failed targets. To address this issue, a system is required to visualize input scan results to enable direct monitoring of the production process and achieve production targets. As a result, PT Yamaha Indonesia developed the Ratio Set Assy Grand Piano system using the SCRUM method. This system includes an MIS that monitors the ratio set of piano, visualized with Apache E-Charts, manages planning, and identifies priority spare parts in real-time. This research contributes to the development of a more efficient and effective production process

Industria Lising Biology

Festo presented the PhotoBionicCell research project at the Hannover Fair – a bioreactor that enables the efficient and large-scale photosynthesis of algae.

The Landscape of Scientific Discussions on the Competencies 4.0 Concept in the Context of the 4th Industrial Revolution—A Bibliometric Review

The concept of Competencies 4.0 stems from a broader term of the 4th Industrial Revolution, also named Industry 4.0, which dates back to 2011, when the German Federal Government announced its high-tech strategy and policy towards increasing the competitiveness of the German economy during the Hannover Fair. These terms and concepts have been thoroughly and extensively discussed, analysed, and researched by experts within various scientific disciplines such as management, economy, psychology, education, human resources, informatics and systemics ever since. Due to the relevance of the Industry 4.0 concept in relation to current socio-economic challenges worldwide, the growing interest on the part of researchers and the proliferation of the above-mentioned terms in the literature, a network of patterns and relations has formed constituting a scientific landscape of the whole phenomenon. Accordingly, the aim of the analysis in this article is to map the landscape of scientific discussions on Competencies 4.0 in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution. So far, some of the aspects of this landscape have been researched with the use of various databases, search engines and software in order to process and visualise retrieved data. All of these tools have their advantages but also their shortcomings. This research uses the Scopus database and the author’s own algorithm to process the data. The results of the analysis provide a point of reference for scholars, practitioners, managers, policy and decision makers from various fields who search for sources which define Competencies corresponding to current and future socio-economic challenges in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Endüstri 4.0, Dijitalleşme ve İş Hukukunun Geleceği-Dijital Platformların Ortaya Çıkardığı Hukuki İlişkiler Çerçevesinde Değerlendirilmesi

Industry 4.0, also called the fourth industrial revolution of our era and used for the first time at the Hannover Fair in Germany in 2011, envisages the production of systems with the systems that have passed from worker control to machine control as a part of the fourth industrial revolution. One of the important transformation fields brought by digitalization is the platforms that provide (offer) service and bring together users called “Gig-Economy” (gig economy-collaborative economy-platform economy). Two ways of working that led to the birth of the digital economy are “crowdworking” through digital platforms and “work on demand via apps.” Currently, determining the legal qualifications of those who provide services on platforms such as “Amazon Mechanical Turk,” “Clickworker,” “Taskrabbit,” “Uber,” and “Helpling” or those who work and the platform that allows these services to be offered presents difficulties within the framework of the traditional concepts of labor law. Failure to comply with the traditional definitions of the continuity and dependency elements of act performance leads to a revision of these definitions and then to a search for new concepts by obscuring the boundaries of the concepts of worker, employer, and workplace.

TEACHING INDUSTRY 4.0

Industry 4.0 is a term that was introduced by the German government at the time of the Hannover Fair in 2011 in relation to an initiative brought forward to support German industry in addressing future challenges. It refers to the 4th industrial revolution, in which disruptive digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI), are exercising a notable impact on industrial production.Industry 4.0 takes the emphasis on digital technology of recent decades to a whole new level with the help of interconnectivity through the Internet of Things (IoT), real-time data access, and the introduction of cyber-physical systems.This paper focuses on the design of an educational module for higher education mechatronics students. Introducing Industry 4.0 into a mechatronics curriculum will reinforce the integration of student competences in flexible and rapid manufacturing. The module includes notions of machine learning and deep machine learning, which are essential in robotics and behavioral robotics and closely interact with control theory. The results of a pilot training activity in the field are also illustrated and discussed.

The Emergence and Rise of Industry 4.0 Viewed through the Lens of Management Fashion Theory

The Industry 4.0 (I4.0) concept is concerned with the fourth industrial revolution in manufacturing, in which technological trends such as digitalization, automation and artificial intelligence are transforming production processes. Since the concept’s introduction at the Hannover Fair in Germany in 2011, I4.0 has enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity and is currently high on the agenda of governments, politicians and business elites. In light of these observations, some commentators have asked the question of whether I4.0 is a concept that is hyped up and possibly just the latest in a long line of fashionable management concepts introduced over the course of the last few decades. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide a critical outside-in look at the emergence and rise of I4.0. Theoretically, these processes are viewed through the lens of management fashion, a theoretical perspective well suited to examinations of evolutionary trajectories of management concepts and ideas. The findings indicate that the I4.0 concept has quickly become highly popular and is dominating much of the popular management discourse. The concept has migrated out of the specialized manufacturing discourse to become a more general concept with mainstream appeal and applicability, evidenced by a multitude of neologisms such as Work 4.0 and Innovation 4.0. The numbers 4.0 have spread in a meme-like fashion, evidenced by the fact that the combination of a noun and the numbers 4.0 are used to signal and usher in discussions about the future of business and society. While there is much evidence that clearly shows that the concept has had a wide-ranging impact at the discursive level, the currently available research is less clear about what impact the concept has had so far on industries and organizations worldwide.

Facing the challenges of the food industry: Might additive manufacturing be the answer?

Our research explores how additive manufacturing can support the food industry in facing its current global challenges. Although information technologies are usually highlighted as the main driver of the Industry 4.0 concept, which was first introduced during the Hannover Fair event in 2011, we posit that additive manufacturing can be the true generator of a sustainable competitive advantage in this sector. This evidence stems from a case study in a plant of one of the world’s largest fishing multinational companies. Our results show how, through robotic claw optimization using three-dimensional printing, we not only reduce the manufacturing costs but also increase the flexibility of the line and reduce time to market. On the one hand, our findings should encourage managers to test this technology at their facilities; on the other hand, policymakers should promote the adoption of additive manufacturing, highlighting the potential of this technology within the Industry 4.0 context.

THE (UNKNOWN) IMPACT OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION

Today we are living in the cusp of a new industrial revolution that differs from all the previous ones. It´s been coined as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) at the 2011 Hannover Fair. The first industrial revolution powered mainly by the steam engine, the second one by the advent of electrification, mass production and division of labor and the third one by the upcoming of internet, computers, networks and digital machines. What differs the FIR from all the others is that this one is on the edge of artificial intelligence, digital ubiquity, cyber-physical systems and even on the way to “Singularity”: where for the first time machines acquired capabilities that we only consider possible in humans. This means that we are fencing tremendous changes in what concerns to all the aspects of life, i.e. social, economic, cultural and, collaterally, in labor market.

Catching up with the Hype

Since the phrase ‘industry 4.0’ appeared at Hannover Fair in 2011, it has been on the lips of manufacturing managers and politicians - but is it now finally coming of age? Mark Venables investigates

Industry 4.0, Logistics 4.0 and Materials - Chances and Solutions

Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0 are highly modern terms. They are connected with the common trend of digitalization, virtualization and networking of data and information. Typical is the implementation of new information and communication technologies into production and logistics practice. This will change the working conditions, processes as well as business models. “Industry 4.0” is the synonym for the 4-th industrial revolution in a general understanding. The term “Industry 4.0” was first used in a high-tech-strategy project of the German government in 2011 at the Hannover Fair. (Compare [1,2]) The paper describes the terms Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0 as two of the most important trends in production and logistics. It characterizes the big chances of this development. The paper gives an overview about important solutions in this area. (Compare [3]) Some new solutions are discussed according to material sciences, as it is also very important to develop and use new materials, which help to create smart solutions. Smart materials are created in the areas of e.g. laminated, composite and functionally graded materials, thermal and piezoelectric actuation, active and passive damping, vibrations and waves in smart structures. (Compare [4]) Smart materials allow the design and implementation of actuator, sensor fields and networks. Further examples are self-reporting materials, which autonomously report about problems and defects. This allows an evaluation and control of defects of components during their use and application. (Compare [5])

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making for Industry 4.0 Weighted Sum Method: Study of the high-tech strategy

Industry 4.0 originated in 2011 from a project in the high-tech strategy of the German government, which promotes the computerization of manufacturing. Actually, the term “Industry 4.0” was publicly introduced in the same year at the Hannover Fair. We are now in the fourth industrial revolution; this is also referred to as Industry 4.0. Automation and Increasing smart machines and smart Sorting of factories, by data Assorted are highly efficient and Enables productive production of goods across the value chain. Alternative: Innovation, Technological, Social factors, Flexibility. Evaluation Preference: Equally Important (E), Weakly Important (WI), Strong emphasis (S), very strong emphasis (VS) and absolutely vital (AS). the result it is seen that weakly important [WI] is got the first rank where as is the Very strongly important (VS) is having the lowest rank. The value of the dataset for The Era of Industry 4.0 in WSM Method (Weighted Sum Model).

Guest Editorial Industry 4.0–Prerequisites and Visions

The papers in this special section focus on the concept of Industry 4.0. From its origin, Industry 4.0–derived from the German term Industrie 4.0–is used as a synonym for Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS), i.e., Cyber-Physical Systems applied in the domain of manufacturing/production. To enable CPPS their automation systems need to be enabled to fulfill the requirements. The term Industrie 4.0 was first used in 2011 at the Hannover Fair and the topic has grown every year not only on the fair. There are still several definitions of Industrie 4.0 (I4.0).

Hannover Fair attendance up by more than 10%

The total attendance figures for the Hannover Fair this year was over 230,000 visitors an increase of more than 10% on the last directly comparable year, 2005.

IdaTech unveils natural gas fuel cell system at Hannover Fair 2003

A Nernst diffusion-layer model is developed for the study of reactant diffusion-migration in electrolyte solutions with coupled chemical-electrochemical reactions. Specifically, proton reduction to hydrogen gas and the Kolbe oxidative dimerization of acetate to ethane and carbon dioxide are studied in an acetic acid solution with supporting electrolyte: an inert (LiClO4) and a reactive electrolyte (NaOH) are each considered. The model predicts concentration and potential profiles within the diffusion layer and the mass-transfer limited current density as a function of the ratio of the supporting-electrolyte concentration to that of acetic acid. For proton reduction, the ratio of the limiting to diffusion current increases with decreasing acid strength in the limit of zero supporting-electrolyte, while the opposite is true for the Kolbe oxidative dimerization of acetate. For the Kolbe oxidative dimerization of acetate in sodium hydroxide, a maximum exists in the ratio of the limiting to diffusion current when the concentration of sodium hydroxide is approximately equal to that of acetic acid. The maximum is a result of the weak-acid strong-base chemistry. Numerical calculations for proton reduction from acetic acid as a function of the supporting-electrolyte concentration are compared with published experimental data. The numerical results and experimental data are in agreement when there is an excess of supporting-electrolyte present, but diverge as the supporting-electrolyte concentration approaches zero.

Hannover Fair 2002 — A showcase for hydrogen and fuel cell technology

This year's Hannover Fair in northern Germany, which took place 15–20 April, saw a record number of exhibits from organizations involved in the hydrogen and fuel cell industry.

96/03439 - Energy is big business at the Hannover Fair

96/03439 - Energy is big business at the Hannover Fair

HANNOVER FAIR '94 — Hungary breaks new ground

HANNOVER FAIR '94 — Hungary breaks new ground