At present both Industry 4.0 and industrial engineering management developments are reshaping the industrial sector worldwide. Industry 4.0 and sustainability are considered as the crucial emerging trends in industrial production systems. Resulting transformations are changing production modes from traditional to digital, intelligent and decentralized. It is expected that Industry 4.0 will help drive sustainability in industries thanks to the implementation of advanced technology and a move towards the social sustainability.
This book reflects on the consequences of the transition to Industry 4.0 for climate change. The book presents a systemic overview of the current negative consequences of digitization for the environment, presents a new outline of the energy domain and expected changes in environmental pollution levels under Industry 4.0. The book also analyses the ecological consequences of growth and development of Industry 4.0, and considers Industry 4.0 as an alternative to fighting climate change, in the sense of shifting the global community's attention from environmental protection to consolidation of the digital economy. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in the fields of climate change and development of Industry 4.0, and it will contribute to national economic policies for fighting climate change and corporate strategies of sustainable development under Industry 4.0.
About the Author: Dr. Rajeev Agrawal is currently an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, (Rajasthan). He obtained his B.E. (Mechanical) from Government Engineering College, Jabalpur (M.P.) and M.E. (Production Engineering), Ph.D. from the MNNIT, Allahabad (U.P.) and BIT, Mesra (Ranchi), respectively. Dr. Rajeev Agrawal is having more than 20 years of professional experience. His current research interests are soft computing (GA, ANN, Fuzzy) applications to manufacturing, modelling and simulation of manufacturing systems, sustainable manufacturing, lean six sigma, supply chain design and reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS). He has published more than 80 papers in reputed international journals and conferences. Dr. Agrawal received the Fellow of The Institution of Engineer's (IEI), India, in 2020. He is acting as an International reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals. Currently, he is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Business and Systems Research (IJBSR) and Associate Editor of International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences (IJMEMS).
Prof. J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also distinguished as honorary professor in several universities/colleges/institutes in China, India and Spain. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. (Higher Doctorate) from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist titles in Engineering and Industrial Management as well as in Metrology. He is also Eur Ing by FEANI-Brussels and Fellow (FIET) of IET-London. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He has also interest in Management, Engineering Education and Higher Education for Sustainability. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and master's students as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards and honors. He has worked as evaluator of projects for ERC-European Research Council and other international research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities in different countries. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 200 books and as author (and co-author) more than 15 books, 100 book chapters and 500 articles in journals and conferences (more than 300 articles in journals indexed in Web of Science core collection/h-index 61+/11500+ citations, SCOPUS/h-index 65+/14500+ citations, Google Scholar/h-index 83+/24500+ citations). He has listed in World´s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University study.
Dr Leonilde Varela received her PhD degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Minho, Portugal in 2007. She is Assistant Professor at Department of Production and Systems of University of Minho. Her main research interests are in manufacturing management, production planning and control, optimization, artificial intelligence, meta-heuristics, scheduling, web based systems, services and technologies, mainly for supporting engineering and production management, collaborative networks, decision making models, methods and systems, and virtual and distributed enterprises. She has published more than 150 refereed scientific papers in international conferences and in international scientific books and journals, indexed in the Web of Science and/or in the Scopus databases. She coordinates R&D projects in the area of production and systems engineering, namely concerning the development of web-based platforms and decision support models, methods and systems. She is a frequent paper reviewer for several journals, such as, Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Journal of Decision Systems, Sustainability, International Journal of Management and Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Sustainability Management and Information Technologies, International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, International Journal of Decision Support Systems Technology, Management and Production Engineering Review, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Robotics. Moreover, she has been increasing international scientific network and collaborates with more than twenty institutions worldwide, and is a member of several international networks, such as: Machine Intelligence Research Labs, Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence (MirLabs), Euro Working Group of Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); System, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE SMC), Industrial Engineering Network (IE Network), and Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Dr. Monica Sharma is working as an Associate Professor and Head of Department of Management Studies in Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. She has completed her PhD from BITS Pilani. She is also serving as the Coordinator for Malaviya Innovation and Incubation Centre MNIT Jaipur. She has published more than 70 papers in peer reviewed Journals/Conferences like Journal of Cleaner Production, Production Planning and Control, and International Journal of Lean six sigma. She has guided more than 7 PhD scholars and currently guiding 4 PhD scholars. Her research interest includes Production Management, Sustainable Supply chain management, Lean Six sigma, Sustainable Manufacturing and Operation management.
