| Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 318, 2020
7th International Conference of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (ICMMEN 2020)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 01037 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202031801037 | |
| Published online | 14 August 2020 | |
Prospective analysis of the impact of a pandemic in Industry 4.0
1
Laboratory for Machine Tools and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería. University of Seville, Spain
* Corresponding author: anaquirosgamez@hotmail.com
The world population in 2020 was estimated at 6.070 million and is projected to grow to around 9 billion by 2050. The evolution and transformation of society in the technological field is a challenge due to its rapid evolution and the social consequences it triggers. The pursued aim is the prospective analysis of diverse scenarios directed by Industry 4.0 macro-drivers, breeding cornerstones for the purpose to presage future pandemic backdrop. In accordance with the evolution of the force for change due to the analyzed factors, a series of recommendations and future work is elaborated to create a weapon to confront this possible context.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.