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This book provides a sophisticated insight into the development of the plastics industry in terms of digitalization and Industry 4.0. The background to these increasingly more important topics is discussed along with the prerequisite knowledge regarding process complexity and data acquisition to build the foundation of data driven digital processes. Furthermore, the facets of so-called cyber physical systems including their key components are discussed and illustrated using industrial application as well as scientific use cases.

Strategic Management in the Plastics Industry explains how companies in the plastic industry can deal with specific problems that are not addressed in general management books. It is written for a broad audience in the industry, including aspiring professionals who wish to become managers, managers already in place who wish to round out their skill

Key Features Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of work-related asthma, including historical aspects, epidemiology and risk factors, mechanisms and genetics, other types of work-related asthma conditions and variants, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, occupational urticaria and dermatitis Assessment of the worker and workplace along with management of the worker, prevention and medicolegal aspects Of interest not only to pulmonologists, but also for industrial hygienists, researchers, lawyers and other health professionals in the field of work-related conditions Detailed information about specific agents, including a variety of high- and low-molecular weight agents

Why Industry 4.0 Sucks! Renegade - reveals the fallacies, febrile fantasies, fabulous fiction, and flatulent fibs that are fuelling the feeble fabrication behind the 4th Industrial Revolution. For almost a decade now I have been heavily involved with Manufacturers, Industries, and Universities in researching Industry 4.0, from a theoretical, academic, and practical perspective. I have always been intrigued by the manufacturing phenomena that is Industry 4.0. So much so that I wrote a best-selling book; 'Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things. I was so impressed I bought into the promise and seemingly endless potential with great gusto. The future seemed bright - and Industry 4.0 was the future. I revisited my old haunting ground with the full intention of updating and revising my earlier book, which was published by Springer in early 2015 with a new edition for 2022. What I discovered appalled me - Industry 4.0, once the proud and enviable flagship policy for European Manufacturing and the inspiration for many Industry 4.0 initiatives around the globe was now a shambolic derelict town. Not only was its very name misappropriated and used as a soulless generic label leaving it eviscerated of all concepts, principles, and purpose - it is now a meaningless synonym for the equally vacuous 4th Industrial Revolution - a zombie. I In this book, I will detail how and why it all went wrong for Industry 4.0 with quantifiable and documented evidence of its Cathartic collapse and at whose hands. I will explain the avoidable reasons behind the staggering failure rate. Indeed, just over 1% of those who embarked on the journey were able to claim a return of any value, in the form of productivity, efficiency, customer experience, supply chain integration, smart factories, or embarrassingly, any value at all, let alone the desperate hopes of a return on investment. In the EU, the UK, India, China, and even the US Industry 4.0 has failed! The EU commission in 2021 branded Industry 4.0 unfit for purpose and one of the root causes for many of the problems society faces today such as technology monopolies and giant wage disparity - this was coming from Industry 4.0's sponsor and authors! However, Industry was not a technology it was a policy with a robust strategy. If it failed it was due to human ignorance, hubris, and greed rather than any inherent technical deficiencies albeit it was rife with contradictions, ambiguity, and confusion certainty of its own making. But Industry 4.0's failure was a failure of business, technology, and consultancy hyperbole. not of its inherent policy. But all is not lost, there is still hope that Industry 4.0 is redeemable, and as such I propose some tried and tested methods that could help you avoid the all too common mistakes and missteps that plagued Industry 4.0 from the outset and that still prevail even today. Forewarned is forearmed and this information will greatly assist you along your own Industry 4.0 journey. I strongly recommend that you do not undertake an Industry 4.0 journey or even a pilot project before reading this book in its entirety or you will surely fail! Well… 99% of the time.

A survey of the role of plastics materials in the motor industry. It discusses progress in the different sectors of automotive engineering, and the possible effect of economic and environmental pressures on the growth of the plastics contribution. Emphasis is given to materials selection and the author explains how a material can be 'right' or 'wrong' for a particular job – and what extraneous factors could change things.